Taxonomy for Social Network Data Types from the Viewpoint of Privacy and User Control

Online social networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of social interaction and communication between people. Reasons include the ubiquity of OSNs that is offered through mobile devices and the possibility to bridge spatial and temporal communication boundaries. However, several researchers have raised privacy concerns due to the large amount of user data shared on OSNs. Yet, despite the large body of research addressing OSN privacy issues, little differentiation of data types on social network sites is made and a generally accepted classification and terminology for such data is missing. The lack of a terminology impedes comparability of related work and discussions among researchers, especially in the case of privacy implications of different data types. To overcome these shortcomings, this paper develops a well-founded terminology based on a thorough literature analysis and a conceptualization of typical OSN user activities. The terminology is organized hierarchically resulting in a taxonomy of data types. The paper furthermore discusses and develops a metric to assess the privacy relevance of different data types. Finally, the taxonomy is applied to the five major OSNs to evaluate its generalizability.

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“…a Note that this article is an extended version of the paper by Richthammer et al presented at the 2013 ARES conference [41].…”

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Taxonomy of social network data types

Richthammer

Netter

Riesner

et al. 2014

EURASIP J Inform Secur

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“…Despite the large body of research regarding privacy issues in SNS, there are rather fundamental aspects that have received little attention and that should be addressed first such as the differentiation of social network data types. Since the lack of a generally accepted terminology may lead to confusion in related discussions, we fill this gap by proposing a comprehensive taxonomy in [18,19]. This is particularly important considering the fact that the popularity of SNSs has lead to an increased quantity and availability of sensitive data.…”

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“…We discover that privacy implications mainly depend on the interplay of a data element's content, the extent and the granularity of user control, and the concrete implementations of these factors on the respective platform. In the course of demonstrating the applicability of our taxonomy, we reveal the implementation-specific differences in privacy settings [18,19].…”

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confidence: 99%

Privacy in Social Networks: Existing Challenges and Proposals for Solutions

Pemul

2015

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The significant change in our social lives and communication habits caused by the rise of Social Network Sites (SNSs) has not only brought along benefits but is also accompanied by privacy threats. In this paper we present our research efforts on SNS privacy and social identity management. First, we outline the results of an empirical study showing significant discrepancies between Facebook users' actual privacy settings and their perception as well as their preferences. Based on this evident need for improving privacy, we present a novel conceptualization of privacy that serves as the basis for tackling the challenges. Finally, the paper provides an overview of solutions we developed as part of our research efforts on privacy in SNSs.Keywords: Social network sites · Privacy · Social identity management MotivationSince their emergence more than a decade ago, Social Network Sites (SNSs) are increasingly changing our social lives and communication habits. While social networks have always been an important part of human life, the advent of easyto-use services and their ability to bridge boundaries -regarding both space and time -increasingly shifts social life to the online world. These networks enable communication with people from different social spheres (e.g. family, close friends, colleagues), ease interaction, and allow their users to stay in touch with existing contacts as well as to create new relationships.However, the rise of SNSs also threatens the privacy of their users. On the one hand, people on SNSs inconsiderately share many personal items (e.g. status updates, location updates, photos) while they are not fully aware of their audience. There are numerous examples of SNS users posting inappropriate pictures and status updates and consequently offending people that have access to these items (such as one's boss or parents). On the other hand, few SNS providers exist that have collected a large amount of personal data in their databases raising surveillance and data protection concerns.

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“…This function block represents the extent to which user reveals their identities in a social media setting [6]. Identity provide the user identification (uniqueness) mean while identify user his name, age, gender, profile, and location and also more subjective information that reveals users through the conscious or unconscious "self-disclosures" of personal information or social media data [1,7,9,10]. Individuality is a central or basic unit to many SM tools, this introduces some fundamental implementation to acquire their own social media sites or strategies for engaging with other sites [6].…”

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Understanding Social Media Phenomenon, Diversity and Research

Somwanshi¹,

Salegaonkar²,

Sharma³

2015

IJCA

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In recent year the social media are very famous and widely use in an internet world, especially in youth users. Social media provides an online digital tool (platform) or websites for users create online communities to share information, experience, ideas, vent emotions, opinions and other user generated data usually for social purpose in among the people. Social media are granted freedom to share anything with online communities. The social media sites such as Twitter 4 , Facebook 3 , Linkedin 5 , Google+ 10 , Youtube 9 , and MySpace. Observe when I talk to internet users about social media use, the overwhelming majority of users only thinks about Facebook 3. They understand Facebook 3 is equal to Social media. Very less people know the exact meaning of social media. Social media has proliferated and evolved into many shapes and forms. That"s why need to study the different social media and how to classify and understand social media research. Most of researcher not aware to exact phenomenon of SM and how to face research problems in SM. This research paper highlights the social media phenomenon, classification and SM research.

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Taxonomy for Social Network Data Types from the Viewpoint of Privacy and User Control

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Taxonomy of social network data types

Taxonomy of social network data types

Privacy in Social Networks: Existing Challenges and Proposals for Solutions

Understanding Social Media Phenomenon, Diversity and Research

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