Social Media and the Scourge of Visual Privacy

Abstract

Online privacy has become immensely important with the growth of technology and the expansion of communication. Social Media Networks have risen to the forefront of current communication trends. With the current trends in social media, the question now becomes how can we actively protect ourselves on these platforms? Users of social media networks share billions of images a day. Whether intentional or unintentional, users tend to share private information within these images. In this study, we investigate (1) the users’ perspective of privacy, (2) pervasiveness of privacy leaks on Twitter, and (3) the threats and dangers on these platforms. In this study, we incorporate techniques such as text analysis, analysis of variance, and crowdsourcing to process the data received from these sources. Based on the results, the participants’ definitions of privacy showed overlap regardless of age or gender identity. After looking at the survey results, most female participants displayed a heightened fear of dangers on social media networks because of threats in the following areas: assets and identity. When the participants were asked to rank the threats on social media, they showed a high concern for burglary and kidnapping. We find that participants need more education about the threats of visual content and how these privacy leaks can lead to physical, mental, and emotional danger.

Determining the Role of Social Identity Attributes to the Protection of Users’ Privacy in Social Media

“…New privacy implications on social media (SM) arise [3] because SM combine technical characteristics (users' engagement in the online realm), while they interplay with disclosing and protecting users' SA. Users' SA should remain available on users' accounts to warranty proper social communications, while the amount and type of personal information should be examined from a privacy preservation spectrum [4].…”

“…Networking platforms have drawn users' and researchers' attention on the basis of implications and patterns to deal with information disclosure [9]. This paper intends to examine privacy issues in relation to users' SA [8,10], as they provide information about user's identification [4] with potentially harmful effects for the user [3].…”

Proposing an Interactive Audit Pipeline for Visual Privacy Research

“…Everyday a large amount of visual content is uploaded to Social Media Networks (SMNs) from billions of users across the globe, which can explain the large amounts of sensitive data that is available online. While these ecosystems have goals that revolve around helping people build connections with others; there are gaps in the methods used to protect the information for individuals and corporations who share or collect content [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The increased upload of images and videos emphasize the need for privacy protection and mitigation strategies for visual content.…”

“…To protect the visual privacy of individuals, researchers have suggested the use of concepts like obfuscation [18,29] for mitigating objects and faces and privacy risk scores. The idea of visual privacy mitigation is centered around accessibility and caters to the individualistic concept of privacy [7,30]. Most visual privacy systems use one or more of these five protection techniques [29]: intervention [20], blind vision [20], secure processing [19,20], redaction [18], and data hiding [20].…”

Engagement y evolución de instagramers hispanohablantes de moda

“…IntroducciónActualmente, las redes sociales propician un espacio idóneo para el cibercontacto entre personas y colectivos con hábitos e intereses similares. En estas plataformas, la navegación se desarrolla de forma sencilla y sin coste, aunque algunos autores aluden a la venta implícita de datos e información personal(DeHart et al, 2020;Wu et al, 2017). Sin embargo, el número de personas registradas en estos medios se multiplica cada día.…”