Social Media Videos Social Media Privacy 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A minor's parent discovers their child is featured in a viral video posted by another account. Under COPPA, what protection exists?
- COPPA only protects children's data from being sold, not their image rights
- Platforms must remove content featuring children under 13 if a parent requests removal and verifies identity (Correct answer)
- The video is automatically removed once it reaches 1 million views
- COPPA does not apply to video content, only profile data
Correct answer: Platforms must remove content featuring children under 13 if a parent requests removal and verifies identity
COPPA gives parents legal authority to request removal of content involving children under 13, and platforms must comply.
Question 2: What is a 'data broker' risk associated with your public social media video profiles?
- Brokers can slow down your video upload speeds
- Brokers scrape and sell your public profile and video data to third parties without your consent (Correct answer)
- Brokers can remove your videos if they violate their policies
- Brokers provide free video analytics tools
Correct answer: Brokers scrape and sell your public profile and video data to third parties without your consent
Data brokers aggregate publicly available social media information and sell compiled profiles to marketers, employers, or others.
Question 3: What privacy setting should you use on Facebook if you want only your Facebook friends to see a video you post?
- Public
- Friends (Correct answer)
- Only Me
- Custom
Correct answer: Friends
The 'Friends' audience setting restricts the video to your confirmed Facebook friends list only.
Question 4: When reviewing a social media app's privacy policy for video data, which clause is most critical to look for?
- How many languages the policy is available in
- Whether the platform licenses or sells your video content to third parties (Correct answer)
- The date the privacy policy was last updated
- Which file formats are supported for video uploads
Correct answer: Whether the platform licenses or sells your video content to third parties
Licensing and data-sale clauses determine if and how the platform can commercially exploit your video content and metadata.
Question 5: What is 'doxxing' and how does it relate to privacy in social media videos?
- Adding creative documents like scripts to your video description
- Publicly exposing someone's private personal information without consent, often using clues from their videos (Correct answer)
- A video format popular for documentary-style content
- Embedding clickable links within video content
Correct answer: Publicly exposing someone's private personal information without consent, often using clues from their videos
Doxxing involves gathering private details (address, phone, workplace) from video backgrounds or metadata and publishing them maliciously.
Question 6: If you use the same password across multiple social media video platforms and one is breached, what is the resulting risk called?
- Password farming
- Credential stuffing (Correct answer)
- Phishing escalation
- Identity mirroring
Correct answer: Credential stuffing
Credential stuffing uses leaked username/password pairs from one breach to automatically try logging into other platforms.
Question 7: Which of the following BEST describes the privacy advantage of ephemeral video content (e.g., Snapchat Stories that disappear after 24 hours)?
- The videos are stored with stronger encryption
- Reduced long-term data exposure since content is automatically deleted after a set period (Correct answer)
- Ephemeral videos cannot be screenshot at all
- The platform earns no advertising revenue from ephemeral content
Correct answer: Reduced long-term data exposure since content is automatically deleted after a set period
Ephemeral content limits the window during which it can be viewed, reducing the permanence of your digital footprint.
Social Media Videos Social Media Privacy 5
A minor's parent discovers their child is featured in a viral video posted by another account.
Under COPPA, what protection exists?