Published December 14, 2015, in Social media Research Presentation on Online Social Networks (OSN) Privacy. CSC 425 Senior Seminar Hampton University Fall 2015 --- FVCproductions https://fvcproductions.com

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
surveyexpertsliterature

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?
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80. Credits
Please refer to my paper.