Privacy Issues on Social Networks
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY SCIENCE, cilt.7, sa.2, ss.60-66, 2018 (TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 7 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2018
- Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SECURITY SCIENCE
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.60-66
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The privacy is a need for humanity since the creation of civilizations. In social networks the common point is thateach user has to create a profile to define his or her own identity. The profile description includes many items with privacysettings to tune their visibility degrees for only owner, friends, friends of friends and sometimes for public. After enrolmentstage, users extend their social connection graphs with accepted new friends and these graphs grow without the control ofindividual due to the new friends of friends. Hence, with high probability, the shared information of member is generallyavailable to public and can be retrieved by users around the world. This article is prepared to give an overview on the reasonsof privacy concerns and risks of SNs, and summarize the current and future possible solution directions for researchers andgovernments.