Over-exposed?

Abstract

As sharing personal media online becomes easier and widely spread, new privacy concerns emerge -especially when the persistent nature of the media and associated context reveals details about the physical and social context in which the media items were created. In a first-of-its-kind study, we use context-aware camerephone devices to examine privacy decisions in mobile and online photo sharing. Through data analysis on a corpus of privacy decisions and associated context data from a real-world system, we identify relationships between location of photo capture and photo privacy settings. Our data analysis leads to further questions which we investigate through a set of interviews with 15 users. The interviews reveal common themes in privacy considerations: security, social disclosure, identity and convenience. Finally, we highlight several implications and opportunities for design of media sharing applications, including using past privacy patterns to prevent oversights and errors.

Advent of The New Media: The influence of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in online photo sharing behaviours on Facebook among young Malaysian adults

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“…In which, research results showed that males are more concerned in regards to their online privacy on Facebook compared to females. Prior research reported that generally there is an inconsistency between users' privacy concerns and their actions [17,20,24,25].…”

Mothering on Facebook: Exploring the Privacy/Openness Paradox

“…Again, this was also the case for the parents surveyed by Ahern et al (2007). While closed-protective and advancedactive users were more likely to have specific rules on posting (or not posting) other people's children's pictures, fence-sitters decided case-by-case.…”

Positive and negative behavioral analysis in social networks

“…From a social science perspective, various studies have explored identity sharing behavior in social network sites and the risk of over exposure of information (notable examples are Refs ). Several studies have shown that users in online environments rely on a variety of cues to make determinations about one another; however, all these cues are not deemed equally credible.…”