Security Issues And Models For Privacy

The privacy of human being has drastically changed with the advent of internet. On a scale of 1 to 10, the privacy of an internet user is a -1 or may be less. Social Networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace etc are mainly responsible for this privacy leakage. This short paper is dedicated to review the change of privacy policy by Facebook on December 2009 and its impact on public privacy and security.

In this digital era, one of the biggest threat for an individual is the invasion of privacy on social media. By social media, I am referring to the interaction and sharing of information on the Internet in order to stay connected with friends, family and business associates. Studies have found that invasion in privacy is a result of multiple factors like lack of consumer knowledge, low self-esteem, growing comfort, trust, generation of revenue and a lack of standards which lead to occurrence of harmful events like identity theft and fraud. “Self-esteem refers to a person’s overall evaluation or judgment of his or her own self (qtd. in Lee and Cheung 150).” Research reveals that identity theft affects millions of people a year, costing victims countless hours and money in identity recovery. “Ninety-five percent of Facebook profiles have at least one application, many of which are not reviewed and can be used for criminal purposes (qtd. in Kent).” Use of social networks can also expose individuals to harassment or inappropriate contact from others. “The Pew Center, in their Cyberbullying 2010 report, states that 93 percent of teens aged 12 to 17 use the Internet. Of that 93 percent, 63 percent of them use the Internet daily. Such high usage increases the risk of their being victims of cyberbullying or other cyber-crimes (qtd. in Cosmato).” Accordingly this essay will explore possible ways to guard privacy when using social media. I will demonstrate that lack of consumer

Social Media is a current way in which people are using to interact with one another daily. Since the launch of various Social Networking Sites (SNS) its been a huge attraction in a new way to share information with others and correspond with interests of your choice in many different forms. Although social media sites allow users to share information with friends and other sites on the internet, many people are unaware of how their privacy is getting out. Now that the expansion of global connection through these social media networking sites are so highly present in todays society, giving us easy access to information, the lack of one's privacy is being diminished. Everyday peoples privacy rights are

Network Sites (SNS) are websites that allow users to upload information to a public profile, create a list of online friends, and browse the profiles of other users of the SNS. The websites have membership rules and community standards. Users disclose identity-relevant information via their profile to others. This information is referential, directly referring to a person, or attributive, describing attributes to the data subject. Although most laws and regulations restrict

In social networks, a link represents a relationship between two nodes in the network. These links can represent email conversations, web surfing, co-purchases of two or more products (e.g. Amazon), friendships (e.g. Facebook), followers (e.g. Twitter), etc. Often times these relationships are sensitive and/or confidential in nature [ying-wu] and the users are operating under the assumption that their private relationships will not be disclosed.

Privacy is the condition of being separated from the perspective of others. This grants a particular presentation of one 's character and information. For some, it infers indefinite quality, and for others, it gathers security of before long identifiable information. The implications of security fluctuate transversely over individuals and social orders. The Internet serves as the routines for correspondence and a stage for fiscal trades, and a lot of essential data is exchanged over it. With its growing use for distinctive purposes, another thought has created Internet security. It fuses tending to the security needs of customers ' information and expecting presentation of the eventually identifiable purposes of enthusiasm of

Due to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and a variety of other social networking sites and apps, millions of online users can connect and share their lives with each other. However, in a complex network where millions of people can create and post their daily lives, the collection and analysis of personal information by online social networking sites has been controversial due to its potential to weaken individual privacy. The online platforms are owned by businesses that have the goal to optimize performance for users but also can turn the masses of users into monetary value by data mining. Global multimedia networks and the advertising industry have become interested in the information about their online consumers due to the fact that people use the Internet on a daily basis for multiple reasons and produce significant amounts of usable data for strategic marketing. Revenue for social network sites is acquired from various companies who are eager to pay to advertise and market their own respective company. There is a great challenge that users face on social media as they try to manage their privacy against the power of the social networks companies that can affect their information and behavior. Popular social network sites—especially Facebook—have created impressive technological ways for many to be connected. However, the potential for social network sites to gather and utilize personal and private data from their users makes it a risky and unjust action for human

Privacy control components for online social systems offer little by the method for overseeing access to a client's close to home information by external applications. Most online social systems give a component to monitoring authorizations from external applications to get to a user’s private information.

The social web is a set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web. Websites have various functions and uses, but the most popular these days, are that of the social realm. Now days, people rarely pick up the phone and call each other. We no longer mail photographs to loved ones with letters attached. If we want to catch up with someone, we don’t write or call, we log on. Viewing someone’s Facebook page, and writing on their wall is the quickest way today to get in touch with someone. With privacy and copyright issues, surfing the social web can be a risky and comes with certain repercussions, but the

Some academics said the 21st century is an era of network and information. Currently, with the development of mobile internet technology, the mobile devices such as mobile phone are becoming more and more popular, it also results in the spread and development of social media, people can chat with others in everywhere and what they need is only a mobile phone. According to the demographics of social media users (2012), there are 67% of internet users who use any social networking sites. Dave (2017) also provides some data in his research shows that there are over 1870 million active users are using Facebook which is the top 1 social media app in the world. Unluckily, according to Matthew et al. (2012), with the popularity of social media and the number of users increase, privacy concerns are becoming a big issue that the social media users facing, the researcher claimed that there are many privacy issues in photos sharing services and location-based services in social media apps by analyzing the big data of social media (Matthew et al. 2012). This paper will explore the privacy concerns for the use of social media to look for the main factors that could violate the privacy of users and certain ways to solve the problems.

This paper aims to look at the threat to privacy as a major and serious drawback of the social networking fad, trends, if any, in the management of online privacy, different models in use to tackle this threat and thereby propose better possible measures that may be adopted to keep information shared on social networking sites out of reach of undesirable

Social network sites contain specifically precious information. This data inevitably relates personal information of its users, which shows particular details of their life. According to Obole, Cruz, & Welsh (2015), using social networking sites have resulted in concerning issues relating to privacy, for instance, manipulate voters, track users or disclose user’s location. Indeed, business sector and government controls the numerous data on social networking sites; however, the authentic causes of violations on personal data theft stems from both users themselves and organizations, which are both participants leading to encroachments of

The growth and evolution of social media have influenced our social and business dynamics. We share more content than ever before in a bid to stay connected, we are less mindful of strangers and we sometimes feel invincible online. However, the level of connectivity offered by social media is quickly growing into our undoing. We are now more vulnerable than ever and this is a risk we cannot afford to take in this day and age when everyone with the know-how can hack into our accounts for their selfish benefits. With the increase in cybersecurity threats, and in this case, social media threats, it is important that we plug the holes and find ways to guarantee our safety online.

Abstract— As the importance and usage of social networks is rising faster these days, obviously the concerns regarding the privacy and security is also growing faster. Thus, we have investigated various privacy and security related threats in social networks. We have also surveyed various available solutions, which are being explored or being implemented in order to avoid the privacy and security threats in social networks these days. In addition to that we have also summarized the strength and weakness of each approach as per our understanding

Internet privacy, personal privacy is also that effect of the internet in our life. Privacy concerns have articulated from the beginnings of large-scale computer sharing.lack of internet privacy leads to not secure internet environment. An absence of secure internet environment leads to hacking. According to S. Srinivasan article Lack of Privacy Awareness in Social Networks “Social media users believe that convenience comes first. Users do not have any reservations about providing personal information as part of their profile.10 When the user gives personally identifiable information (PII), such as address and date of birth, the intent is for the benefit of friends. Users believe that their friends already know the PII and they are sharing something that only provides clarity to their circle of friends. Issues arise when access to the information is extended beyond the circle of friends by transferring of privileges.11 This is where the initial privacy compromises take place. In many cases, the customer is unaware of the extent to which the PII has spread. One reason for this confusion is the way social networks enable the