IT 210 - Business Systems Analysis and Design Introduction
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.
Review of the case
Facebook was experimenting with the privacy setting since mid of 2009 and finally implemented it on December 2009. One of the biggest impact of this policy change is the friend list of an individual can’t be private. There are many more privacy issues that are associated with this change of policy. To be a master of this changed policy is not a child play as it is almost 6000 word long. There are 50 settings and the number of potions is more than 170. Chris Betcher points out: “The most recent changes made to their privacy policy have made the sharing of your personal information ‘opt-out’, rather than the previous method of ‘opt-in’. This means that, unless you wade through the many privacy settings to turn them off, you are probably sharing far more than you realise.” ("Bye Bye Facebook | Betchablog"). This opt-out way of information sharing can be very dangerous. This information can be used for ‘Identity theft’ purpose of an individual. Facebook has made some changes
It is shown, that one of the most prominent sources that prove a danger toward privacy, is through social media, specifically Facebook. This site alone
However, for some teenagers, even adults users, identity management poses a threat for their privacy. In a series of case study by Mary and Aaron (2010) reveals that the majority of SNS users(77%) have altered their privacy setting. At the mean time, it is also the case that only 6% users have bad experiences owing to their privacy exposure, which causes them feel embarrassed. Moreover, there are 12% social networking users feeling regret the content that they have posted and shared. As a result of analyzing case study, there are increasing number of people realized the significance of identity management on social networking sites. In the view of the
Acquisti and Gross point out that the unprecedented growth of online social networks including but not limited to Facebook and MySpace has brought with itself serious security and privacy concerns. In this particular study, the authors found out that privacy issues do not discourage individuals from being members of the network. Further, the authors also found out that even individuals who happen to be rather concerned about their privacy reveal a great deal of their personal information after joining the network. This study is highly relevant to my research as it clearly demonstrates that individuals do not take privacy issues seriously on joining Facebook. As the authors point out, the study in this case secured its support from the "CMU Berkman Faculty Development Fund, CMU CyLab and the Data Privacy Laboratory." Thus in addition to being relevant, the study can also be regarded credible.
The privacy compliance recommends that companies like Facebook should adopt a comprehensive privacy program that is reasonably designed to protect the privacy and security to prevent predictable risks. Another important idea is to abide by the Federal Trade Commission’s rules about keeping their advertising from being misleading and deceptive. Also, an opt-in consent form must be provided to the consumers that their data will be kept private. Overall, any type of changes a company possesses should be disclosed clearly to the
This essay will discuss the way social networking sites affect the nature and limits of privacy. There are various social networking websites e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, Twitter, Google Buzz, and many others with various privacy settings and in the past several years billions of people have joined these social networking sites.
Many people have described the Internet as “a whole new world.” From Facebook to Google, there are a multitude of ways to connect with others and acquire information like never before. According to Pew Research Center, seventy-six percent of social media users in the United States use Facebook daily (Social Media Fact Sheet).That is an immense amount of connections and information being shared. The United States has made many technological advancements for the good, however, the United States has given up their privacy for safety and convenience.
Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As
What do you think when you put your personal information into a website? Will it be sold to others or will it send you scams? Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. According to consumer reports, “13 million users said they had not set or did not know about Facebook 's privacy settings and 28% shared all or nearly all of their posts publicly”. This shows that we are not very careful when it comes to reading our privacy settings in social networks. When you think of social-networking most people think of Facebook, Instagram, twitter or even Myspace. Today, in society, technology is being made each day. It is bringing our level of life easier or maybe even harder. This progression of technology helps hackers even more to get our information. According to the privacy rights clearinghouse,
Privacy is often defined as freedom from the observation, intrusion, or attention of others. If that was taken away from daily life the world would become a collection of omniscient beings that walk around with potentially harmful information about those surrounding them. Stalking would be unnecessary because the internet would do all for the work for us. Social networking sites are creating many such concerns. One of the most widely known social networking sites is Facebook. When reviewing Facebook’s privacy policy, you may want to keep in mind that “an examination of Facebook's privacy policy shows that the informedchoicemodel is completely unrealistic” (Grimmelmann).Facebook not only helps our friends learn more about our daily life,
Much of the time, users are concerned over their privacy not being protected however Facebook’s multiple privacy features help keep them and their data safe from prying eyes. Since privacy is a fundamental or the most essential element in social media, people can control what friends and strangers view. By adjusting their account settings, people can select who views and likes their pictures as well as choosing who and what personal information can be accessed. By doing this, identity thieves can no longer perform their malicious plans since they don’t have access to the information they required. Furthermore, when it comes to “friend request” the individual not only decides who to accept as a friend but can also add whomever they want. Facebook goes more than beyond by giving the chance to block or unfriend a person who they no longer feel comfortable being on their friends list. Through these features, the chance of getting assaulted reduces, due to the fact that control of establishing a friendship is within the user’s hands. Samir Patel, Engineering Director on User Data Protection and Protect and Care states, “Keeping people’s communications and personal information safe and secure is a core part of our DNA at Facebook. Our experts in security and privacy work around the clock to detect, design and build new solutions to stay ahead of
What do about ninety percent of us have in common? It’s the social networking sites that everyone is a part of these days, whether it’s your twelve year old nephew or your grandmother. Spending hours and hours connecting with your old friends and making new friends over the social networking sites has become a part of everyone’s daily routine. Nonetheless, recently privacy concerns over the social networking sites have taken its peak.
Privacy of information has turned out to be a paradoxical issue in the information age(Barnes, 2006). One of the prime driving forces to this has been the rise of social networking sites. It is observed that these sites gather considerable amount of information about their users (Baruh, 2007). Research illustrates that social networking users are unaware of their personal information being compromised on both traditional and online commercial marketplace within different companies without prior user consent. However, they still continue to provide their personal details on such sites (Campbell, 2001; Goettke & Christiana, 2007; Govani & Pashley
These days, a large number of people frequently use social media in their daily life as technology has developed. Through social media, they watch videos, see pictures, and communicate with others. Facebook is one of the most popular social media. Now Facebook becomes not just a communication tool, but a marketing tool. While using Facebook, people are exposed to various advertisements. Those advertisements on Facebook are carefully selected based on personal data collected from Facebook. While personal information provided by Facebook helps advertisers promote their products to appropriate users, privacy problems are rising because of using users’ personal data.
Negligence of users in terms of a personal setting of privacy leads to the violation (Facebook & your privacy (Cover Story), 2012).
A study by Dwyer et al. [17] have found that Facebook’s users were willing to share their information due to a high level of trust. Additionally, Acquisti and Gross [3] found that users’ privacy concerns, at Facebook, only weakly influenced their membership. Therefore, privacy is not an issue to users while participating on Facebook.