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
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 of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users, Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. As of December last year, Facebook called its 500 million users to review their privacy settings at the launch of its new user control tools which allow the user to control their information easily depending on
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.
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,
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
Privacy: The issue of privacy stemmed from the exponentially increasing Internet use by teens. Particularly, when Facebook, the worlds most popular social media tool, abolished its exclusive availability to solely university students and become available to the general public, there was a dramatic increase in internet usage among younger web-users. With this increased internet usage came
Recent events have caused Facebook users to lose faith in the company’s ability to keep personal information confidential and some users are so upset that they disabled their pages. Facebook has been caught in a scandal in which the data related to 50 million of its users was “harvested through a personality quiz app and passed along to the political data firm Cambridge Analytica”. This breach is a significant issue because Facebook users trusted the social media company to keep their personal information private and the company fell through on its promises. This causes people to not want to use Facebook’s services because they are fearful that their information could be shared unbeknownst to them. This issue will be detrimental to the Facebook brand because users can no longer trust them.
Within the social media industry, Facebook quickly rose and surpassed its competitors through a series of innovative strategies. However, Facebook is plagued by privacy concerns in sharing of user personal data. Consequently, Facebook must takes steps to regain and maintain confidence of its stakeholders. Moreover, various strategies must be employed for Facebook to remain a leader in this industry. Accordingly, the following annexures detail Facebook’s strategies for initial growth, it’s privacy challenges, improvements for stakeholder confidence, and strategies for future growth.
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.
The research mainly examines the privacy concerns of the young adolescents with respect to their accounts on Social Media Platforms. The focus of the research intends to understand the privacy protection behaviors on social networks. The targeted population for this research paper was young adolescents. The result revealed that the young adults are concerned about their privacy settings be it Males or Females. In addition, the Females have a more proactive approach towards the Privacy settings on Social Networking Sites especially Facebook. The research used a large- scale survey of young adults through Questionnaire. The research examines the relationship between privacy concern/aspect and Facebook as well as Privacy concerns and Gender. The research was conducted in locality of Mumbai. The Data was analyzed with the aid of Statistical tools in a way to establish a study on the privacy concerns of Today’s young adults.
Firstly, privacy practices are highly controversial when speaking about Facebook. Although the website offers an array of privacy settings to choose from, regarding the access to your information by others, the huge data Facebook collects from its users is not in the safest hands. It is sold to advertisers so that they can target individuals according to their interests(5). In fact, Facebook’s privacy policy has changed across the years,
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 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
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.
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.
Thesis Statement: The rise of social networking sites has considerable increased the volume of personal data being collected or sold online by some organizations without any consent by the owners, therefore, there are many practices that should be performed by either users or organizations in order to protect the violation.