THIRD LEARNING JOURNAL LJ3
The reading that stood out to me from these past few weeks is chapter 6 , “Social Media Metrics and Analytics , ” Particularly the part of the chapter that talks about API’s application programming inte r face. Jeremy Harris Lipschultz page 159. Since I had never even heard of (API) , I did not understand it other than it seemed like a massive invasion of privacy, so after finishing the chapter and tal king with my son , who is well-versed in technology, and social media , I did some additional digging and what I found out was shocking , and scary . The API application programming interface is a big problem with privacy issues. It is the most common method to collect information from a user and make it available to third parties. The privacy concern here is that data collected by the API can be transferred to third parties without user consent. This can include recording your voice or image, collecting location information, taking pictures, and recordi...