with the rapid growth and remarkable adoptation rate of social networking sites such as facebook,linkedin,g+,twitter etc. we are now concerned with the growing risks.such as-loss of privacy,our pictures may be stolen,bullying,harmful contacts etc. dat implicitly give rise to the exposure of one's identity and privacy.
our intent of exposing our identity and connecting publicly at times makes us ignorant of the fact that we are at the risk of breaching the privacy of our personally identifiable information.nevertheless,you can learn a few steps to feel more secure via this presentation.
2. INTRODUCTION
Social networking sites have been rapidly adopted by children and,
especially, teenagers and young people worldwide, enabling new
opportunities for the presentation of the self, learning, construction of a
wide circle of relationships
On the other hand, there are also concerns that social networking
increases the likelihood of new risks to the self, these centering on loss of
privacy, bullying, harmful contacts and more.
This presentation focuses on the importance of building safety
considerations into the design and management of social networking sites,
the imperative for greater attention to ‘at risk’ children in particular.
7. Why should students
care about their digital
identity?As members of a campus community, it is important for students
to know that their online actions can have impact.
Social media posts can show up in search engine queries.
Companies are no longer just looking at your resume. They
want to know what you are doing (and saying) online too.
8. Students with a fluent grasp of social media can accelerate
their learning, develop meaningful connections with peers,
and grow their professional network.
What we do online can affect our face-to-face
interactions…and vice versa.
9. Why should higher
education concern about
students’ digital identity?
We’re all digital students in the sense that we are constantly
learning how to use the social tools while they are constantly
evolving.
Schools need to be intentional about how they incorporate digital
identity development into their educational constructs.
10. Social media are not a trend or a fad that are going to
someday evaporate.
We need to be proactive with teaching our students how
to build their digital identity versus being reactive
whenever they post something that we wish hadn’t made it
onto the web.
12. Use a password
manager
Disable GPS and Wi-Fi on
your mobile device until
you need them
Read the access
privileges for apps
carefully, and make good
choices
Make yourself more
difficult to find on
social media
Keep your work and
personal presences
separate
Encrypt your
connections
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14. SECURE THE LINE
VPNs serve as an encrypted tunnel that prevents bad guys from
getting between you and the Internet in order to steal your login
credentials or other sensitive information.
Over a VPN your ISP can see only your connection to the VPN.
You can use a free virtual private network client like OpenVPN
to connect to a VPN service where you have an account, so you
can browse the Web through an encrypted tunnel.
19. STOP LEAVING PRIVATE DATA
IN THE CLOUD
For sensitive data that you need to sync across devices,use an encrypted cloud
storage service. You can build one by encrypting data on your PC before sending
it to Dropbox, using free software such as BoxCryptor .
Two popular encrypted storage services are SpiderOak and Wuala. Both services
bill themselves as “zero-knowledge solutions”.
You have to be comfortable with the company and trust that the service it is
doing what it claims is to keep your data secure.
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21. When you use SpiderOak,the password you choose is factored
into the encryption keys generated by the SpiderOak client.
It provides storage for upto 2GB.
The only way for anyone, even a SpiderOak employee, to access
your file is by inputting your password by guessing it.
Password-building best practices dictate you should choose a
phrase of at least ten characters.
Use SpiderOak's desktop client for maximum security.
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23. Wuala claims to encrypt and decrypt your data on a mobile
device similar to the way it handles the task on your PC.
Wuala provides storage for upto 5GB.
when you share folders from Wuala using a Web link, the
encryption key gets included in the URL.
Anyone who receives the URL can view the contents of that
folder,and the key has to be sent to Wuala’s servers for
decryption,that’s one instance where using Wuala is less secure.
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25. TWO-FACTOR
AUTHENTICATION
Two-factor authentication requires you to enter a short numeric code in
addition to your password to protect you from hacking and unauthorized
account access.
The code usually comes from a smartphone application.
The best thing is that you can get most of your two-factor authentication
codes from Google’s Authenticator app for Android and iOS.
Authenticator automatically works with accounts such as Dropbox,
Evernote, Google, LastPass, and Microsoft.
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30. Using your browser’s incognito mode won’t keep you completely
anonymous, either, but it will block websites from reading the
cookies and history stored in your browser.
The downside of services like SpiderOak and Wuala is that there
is no way of retrieving your password and can provide only a
password hint that you entered during the signup process.
Two-factor authentication isn’t foolproof, but it does add a
hurdle to help deter anyone who wants to get into your account.
POINTS TO NOTE
31. CONCLUSION
Every organization that produces social networks should implement
strong measures during creation of such applications to be secure in their
operation. They further need to implement unassailable access controls to
prevent exposure of personally identifiable information.
On the other side, users should manage how much information they
reveal about themselves and their peers.
What is required,is balancing between the identity and privacy.
So should you still blindly jump into the race of socializing or
rather implement stringent solutions that balance both our identity
and privacy to help mitigate the risks and concerns?
