Privacy and security issues in online social networks
| Author | Ali, Shaukat |
| Author | Islam, Naveed |
| Author | Rauf, Azhar |
| Author | Din, Ikram U. |
| Author | Guizani, Mohsen |
| Author | Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C. |
| Available date | 2022-11-10T09:47:22Z |
| Publication Date | 2018 |
| Publication Name | Future Internet |
| Resource | Scopus |
| Resource | 2-s2.0-85057883244 |
| Abstract | The advent of online social networks (OSN) has transformed a common passive reader into a content contributor. It has allowed users to share information and exchange opinions, and also express themselves in online virtual communities to interact with other users of similar interests. However, OSN have turned the social sphere of users into the commercial sphere. This should create a privacy and security issue for OSN users. OSN service providers collect the private and sensitive data of their customers that can be misused by data collectors, third parties, or by unauthorized users. In this paper, common security and privacy issues are explained along with recommendations to OSN users to protect themselves from these issues whenever they use social media. 2018 by the authors. |
| Sponsor | This work is supported by the National Funding from the FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through the UID/EEA/500008/2013 Project; by Finatel through the Inatel Smart Campus project; by Finep, with resources from Funttel, grant no. 01.14.0231.00, under the Radiocommunication Reference Center (Centro de Referência em Radiocomunicações—CRR) project of the National Institute of Telecommunications (Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações—Inatel), Brazil; by Brazilian National Council for Research and Development (CNPq) via Grant No. 309335/2017-5. |
| Language | en |
| Publisher | MDPI AG |
| Subject | Classic privacy threats Modern threats OSN Security |
| Type | Article |
| Issue Number | 12 |
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