Privacy concerns with social networking services is a subset of data privacy, involving the right of mandating personal privacy concerning storing, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet. Social network security and privacy issues result from the astronomical amounts of information these sites process each day. Features that invite users to participate in—messages, invitations, photos, open platform applications and other applications are often the venues for others to gain access to a user’s private information.
The latest revelations follow a series of scandals including the Cambridge Analytica data harvest, incitement to violence in Myanmar, also known as Burma, evidence of Russian and Iranian meddling in the US elections, and several data-exposing bugs.
- Russia ‘meddled in all big social media’ around US election
- New Facebook bug exposed millions of photos
- Facebook defends Mark Zuckerberg’s exposed emails
- Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica scandal
These have undermined public confidence in Facebook, led to calls for new regulations and prompted demands for a leadership rethink.
“We have to seriously challenge the claim by Facebook that they are not selling user data,” commented Damian Collins MP, chair of the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
“They may not be letting people take it away by the bucket load, but they do reward companies with access to data that others are denied, if they place a high value on the business they do together. This is just another form of selling.”
With a little bit of knowledge and a small dose of caution, however, you can enjoy all the benefits of social networking services with few of the risks. Here are some privacy concerns you should watch out for.
- Account hacking and impersonation
- Stalking and harassment
- Being compelled to turn over passwords
- Walking a fine line between effective marketing and privacy intrusion
TANG XIAOTING 
I think your blog is very reasonable. First of all, you fully analyze how our privacy will be leaked out, then you gave us a Facebook example, Let us know that our privacy may already be known to others，and finally listed several measures to prevent privacy leakage.
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Thank you for your comment! Privacy leakage is the most important part that I want people to pay attention to. As users, the Internet gives us convenience and fun, but it should base on the situation that personal information is safe. I hope the government will take action to protect us from information leakage.
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In such an era of bid data, the data or the information are no longer just digits or codes, they are valued. they can use in many different ways. (applying marketing strategy). but at the same time, this data contains lots of personal details of name address number Internet Behavior, People become free of privacy, and what they have said has been exposed to everyone. we need more regulations and law to manage those properly to protect our privacy
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Thank you for your comment! The usage of the term big data tends to refer to the use of predictive analytics, user behavior analytics, which means users’ personal information is being monitored all the time. So I hope the government will take action to protect us from information leakage.
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Hello Emma! Internet has gave us lots of convenient and information yet we have risk of losing our privacy online. Therefore, we have to protect our information before getting hacked by someone. Social network security and privacy issues are always a hot topic to discuss, I believe there will be more complete law and regulations to protect our privacy in the future.
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Thank you for your comment! Internet is such a convenient tool that people can’t live without it now. However, most people don’t pay attention to their personal privacy and information. So I want people to privacy issues into consideration and surf the internet safely.
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