Social Networking Privacy—Who’s Stalking You?

Abstract

This research investigates the privacy issues that exist on social networking sites. It is reasonable to assume that many Twitter users are unaware of the dangers of uploading a tweet to their timeline which can be seen by anyone. Enabling geo-location tagging on tweets can result in personal information leakage, which the user did not intend to be public and which can seriously affect that user's privacy and anonymity online. This research demonstrates that key information can easily be retrieved using the starting point of a single tweet with geo-location turned on. A series of experiments have been undertaken to determine how much information can be obtained about a particular individual using only social networking sites and freely available mining tools. The information gathered enabled the target subjects to be identified on other social networking sites such as Foursquare, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+, where more personal information was leaked. The tools used are discussed, the results of the experiments are presented and the privacy implications are examined.

The effect of social media and advertising activities on affiliate marketing

“…Microblogging is a form of electronic word-of-mouth that refers to the use of short messages to communicate in an online social network (e.g., Jansen et al, 2009). Research has so far addressed modelling network relationships (e.g., Katona et al, 2011;Trusov et al, 2010), privacy (e.g., Gan and Jenkins, 2015;Jeong and Coyle, 2014), information value (e.g., Hennig-Thurau et al, 2015;Schweidel and Moe, 2014;Tirunillai and Tellis, 2012;Zhang et al, 2011), and multiple media (e.g., Stephen and Galak, 2012;Smith et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2016;Yu et al, 2013).…”

The effect of social media and advertising activities on affiliate marketing

“…Microblogging is a form of electronic word-of-mouth that refers to the use of short messages to communicate in an online social network (e.g., Jansen et al, 2009). Research has so far addressed modelling network relationships (e.g., Katona et al, 2011;Trusov et al, 2010), privacy (e.g., Gan and Jenkins, 2015;Jeong and Coyle, 2014), information value (e.g., Hennig-Thurau et al, 2015;Schweidel and Moe, 2014;Tirunillai and Tellis, 2012;Zhang et al, 2011), and multiple media (e.g., Stephen and Galak, 2012;Smith et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2016;Yu et al, 2013).…”

Disconnect between intentions and outcomes: A comparison of regretted text and photo social networking site posts

“…Finally, certain online behaviors increase the risk of privacy and security violations; allowing one's profile to be publicly visible, accepting friend requests from strangers, and sharing personal or location information may result in damaging consequences. Such activities may increase the possibility that an individual falls victim to identity theft, misuse of personal information, or stalking (Bilge, Strufe, Balzarotti, & Kirda, ; Fire, Goldschmidt, & Elovici, ; Gainsbury, Browne, & Rockloff, ; Gan & Jenkins, ; Vishwanath, ).…”

“…and sharing personal or location information may result in damaging consequences. Such activities may increase the possibility that an individual falls victim to identity theft, misuse of personal information, or stalking (Bilge, Strufe, Balzarotti, & Kirda, 2009;Fire, Goldschmidt, & Elovici, 2014;Gainsbury, Browne, & Rockloff, 2019;Gan & Jenkins, 2015;Vishwanath, 2015).…”