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    Librarians as Feisty Advocates for Privacy

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    Librarians are the ideal professional group to advocate for privacy and intellectual freedom during online social media product use. Under the central leadership of the American Library Association (ALA), librarians should lead a campaign to urge Internet social media companies to include Privacy by Design principles in their user agreements. This social media privacy campaign would follow librarians’ historical privacy advocacy efforts, and promoting ethical user agreements presents a new venue for librarians’ advocacy in the era of online information access

    Empirical Study of Privacy Issues Among Social Networking Sites.

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    Social media networks are increasing their types of services and the numbers of users are rapidly growing. However, online consumers have expressed concerns about their personal privacy protection and recent news articles have shown many privacy breaches and unannounced changes to privacy policies. These events could adversely affect data protection and compromise user trust, thus it is vital that social sites contain explicit privacy policies stating a comprehensive list of protection methods. This study analyzes 60 worldwide social sites and finds that even if sites contain a privacy policy, the site pages may also possess technical elements that could be used to serendipitously collect personal information. The results show specific technical collection methods most common within several social network categories. Methods for improving online privacy practices are suggested

    Investigation on Security Issues and Features in Social Media Sites (Face Book, Twitter, & Google+)

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    Social media sites allow users to communicate and share their information which are a matter of privacy for users, so users should be aware about its limitations and disad-vantages to use social media sites. Likewise, there are many social media sites with its dif-ferent features and it typically works with the latest technology that is provided by the ex-perts to get connected and go along with the flow. The online privacy issues have been a re-al time problem and these however is the main aim for the experts to reduce the problems while sharing the kind of content that is allowed by the social media sites. There are issues that are general and the public need to oppose for the privacy terms and conditions. People these days are concerned about the information that they post on the sites such as Face Book, Twitter and Google Sharing the photos and the latest features are now a sign of a problem for many users. In this research paper, Researcher will explore key infor-mation about the privacy issues and problems reported by social media users while using social networking sites. Being a personal user of popular social networking sites, researcher faced privacy concerns that initiated me to conduct a research on actual facts and figures behind the privacy issues among the social networking sites. Nowadays, social media sites are widely used by hackers and un-authorized users where over usage of social media users from different geographic locations lead to in-creased privacy issues across these sites. In order to resolve the privacy concerns, the social media administrators have implemented many secured anti-privacy attack technique tech-niques but still they are not totally successfully providing 100% security to the user privacy over social networking sites. Researcher found this issue to be a serious concern in current cyber crimes for which we have decided to conduct a research on this topic. Researcher had conducted research on pri-vacy issues and found that there are loads of security concerns in terms of privacy issues such as user privacy while photos and videos upload user privacy during messaging and chatting, user privacy during shares and uploads. All these issues seemed to be critical in terms of security where there is a huge necessity for implementing effective security tech-niques that are highly capable in reducing privacy issues and ensure 100% privacy to the social media users. With use of this study researcher will explain the key privacy concerns reported in social media sites and current approaches available to reduce those issues. Researcher will explain the current scope of using those techniques and their limitations in providing privacy to the users. Finally, with use of this paper, researcher will investigate and propose best security technique that can be implemented to reduce the privacy concerns across social media sites

    VirtualIdentity : privacy preserving user profiling

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    User profiling from user generated content (UGC) is a common practice that supports the business models of many social media companies. Existing systems require that the UGC is fully exposed to the module that constructs the user profiles. In this paper we show that it is possible to build user profiles without ever accessing the user's original data, and without exposing the trained machine learning models for user profiling - which are the intellectual property of the company - to the users of the social media site. We present VirtualIdentity, an application that uses secure multi-party cryptographic protocols to detect the age, gender and personality traits of users by classifying their user-generated text and personal pictures with trained support vector machine models in a privacy preserving manner

    Social media and its effect on privacy

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    While research has been conducted on social media, few comparisons have been made in regards to the privacy issues that exist within the most common social media networks, such as Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter. Most research has concentrated on technical issues with the networks and on the effects of social media in fields such as medicine, law, and science. Although the effects on these fields are beneficial to the people related to them, few studies have shown how everyday users are affected by the use of social media. Social media networks affect the privacy of users because the networks control what happens to user contact information, posts, and other delicate disclosures that users make on those networks. Social media networks also have the ability to sync with phone and tablet applications. Because the use of these applications requires additional contact information from users, social media networks are entrusted with keeping user information secure. This paper analyzes newspaper articles, magazine articles, and research papers pertaining to social media to determine what effects social media has on the user\u27s privacy and how much trust should be placed in social media networks such as Facebook. It provides a comprehensive view of the most used social media networks in 2012 and offers methods and suggestions for users to help protect themselves against privacy invasion

    Social media and data privacy in education: An international comparative study of perceptions among pre-service teachers

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    Social media platforms offer many educational possibilities, but they also create challenges associated with their business models. One increasingly relevant challenge, especially in the context of teacher education and schools, is personal data privacy. When considering social media and data privacy in education, taking into account culture-specific aspects in different countries, such as legal frameworks, user attitudes, and cultural values, is uncommon. This cross-sectional study explores the perceptions of pre-service teachers (N = 225) from universities in four countries (Germany, New Zealand, Spain, and the USA) concerning educational and professional social media use, as well as data privacy awareness and practices. Data were collected via a survey and analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. Results indicate that along with common belief in social media's educational potential, data privacy concerns were present, knowledge related to data privacy was lacking, and differences existed between participants from the different universities. We discuss these results in relation to legal frameworks, user attitudes, and cultural values concerning social media data privacy, and consider implications for research, practice, and policy
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