A Survey of Security & Privacy in Online Social Networks (OSN) with regards to Attitudes & Behaviors

CSC 425 Research Presentation
Online Social Networks (OSN) Privacy

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1. A Survey of Security & Privacy in Online Social Networks (OSN) with regards to Attitudes & Behaviors
2. Hello! I’m Frances Coronel. You can find me @fvcproductions.
3. 1. MOTIVATION Why this topic?
6. 2. PROBLEM Lack of awareness.
7. “ Nobody knows anything about privacy policy laws or how much data is being collected on them through the Terms & Conditions that they agree to without hesitation.
8. Hypotheses Does the behavior of online users match their attitudes when it comes to online privacy? No. Do people recognize the importance of the privacy policies their applications put in place? No.
9. 3. METHODOLOGY How do I go about finding out?
10. The Strategy survey experts literature
11. Literature Only well-documented and open-source papers on online privacy were cited.
12. Facebook Scrapping Application 61% admit to not using any software to protect their personal data 98% worried whether they had enough control to warrant anonymity of their personal data using Facebook
13. Experts Cullen Hoback Zeynep Tufekci Ondrej Krehel
14. Cullen Hoback Observed that countries around world are increasingly exercising territorial control over Internet and Internet users' data, largely due to concerns about fact that much of Internet data is controlled by United States companies. December 2011
15. Zeynep Tufecki Argued that intelligence agencies have tendency to automatically call for greater surveillance of technology-based communications and weakening of encryption services. Challenge is not collection of more data, but developing ability to identify and track truly dangerous people who currently get lost amid wash of information. November 2015
16. Ondrej Krehel 1. Decide if your digital presence and persona is professional or individual. 2. Be aware of who you are sharing your data with. 3. Remove any traces of yourself from public searches. 4. Opt out of check-ins. 5. Keep a close eye on social apps. 6. Limit the amount of personal information you post. 7. Be wary of strangers. 8. Stay updated on privacy policy changes on websites and apps. June 2015
17. Survey 25 questions.
18. Purpose of the Survey The survey was done to gauge the level of understanding of how the users are aware of the data that they disclose in these sites. The survey, which is based on Knowledge Networks (KN) uses an array of questions posed to the users to get to know their stands as far as this information is concerned.
21. 4. RESULTS What did the survey tell us?
45. 5. ANALYSIS OF RESULTS Looking back at the hypotheses.
46. Conclusion 1. Behavior of online users do not match their attitudes when it comes to online privacy. Even though many people put their personal information online, most are ignorant or concerned on how their personal data is actually being used.
47. Conclusion 2. Too many people fail to read the Terms of Services for the applications they use because they’re either too boring or too long to read. Yet, they still recognize the importance of having a ToS that is fair and reasonable.
48. Overarching Conclusion When provided with data and facts, most people are willing to re-evaluate their current state of privacy settings and general perspective on online privacy.
49. 6. RECOMMENDATIONS What can the companies do? What can we do?
50. Raise awareness.
67. Collective Action Unless someone and makes it no longer practical and pressure is put upon the CEOs of these companies, they will continue to engage it in. The terms & conditions for these large tech monopolies need to be easier to understand and only users voicing their concerns over them will change anything.
68. To date, no US legislation has dealt with the policies that permit government agencies & corporations to abuse personal data.
69. Petraeus Affair The top spy in America lost his job… because he himself didn’t understand how the system can work against anyone. For once it seemed privacy was an issue on which all political parties could agree on.
71. Can you please not?
72. Can you please not record us, monitor us, and share our information unless we ask for it first? We need Terms & Conditions that are reasonable and we need privacy policies that promote the most basic principles of our democracy rather than taking them away.
73. 7. CONCLUSION Now we part ways.
74. Privacy is dead? Basically.
77. Edward Snowden - Interview (2013) The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change…. [Americans] won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests.
78. DO WE AGREE?
79. Thanks! Any questions? You can find me at @fvcproductions.
80. Credits Please refer to my paper.