Twitter, One of the fastest-growing platforms of the last decade, has set the precedent to be the quickest social media platform in recent times. Even though Twitter sets itself aside in terms of privacy breaches, it is frequently found in the thick of it due to its explosive medium & viral content.

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Twitter Terms of Services : https://twitter.com/en/tos#intlTerms

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Highlights of the Policy :

1. Twitter won't compensate you for the content. It's free property.

   "By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. You agree that this license includes the right for Twitter to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, Retweet, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by Twitter, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein."

Google is one of the biggest tech giants in this industry, which started with a tiny 2 minutes long privacy policy and today, it is 48 minutes long. A lot has changed over these two decades. This policy is effective as on March 31st 2020.

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Link to the Policy : https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

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Highlight of the Policy :

• Google collects phone numbers

  If you use our services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, we may collect telephony log information like your phone number, calling-party number, receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types of calls.

• Google collects your information from other websites

  In some circumstances, Google also collects information about you from publicly accessible sources. For example, if your name appears in your local newspaper, Google’s Search engine may index that article and display it to other people if they search for your name.