Privacy Issues in Social Networks

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Author(s): Alexandros Papanikolaou (Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece), Vasileios Vlachos (Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece), Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)and Christos Ilioudis (Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 22
Source title: Social Network Engineering for Secure Web Data and Services
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Luca Caviglione (Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (ISSIA), Italy), Mauro Coccoli (University of Genoa, Italy)and Alessio Merlo (University of Genoa & Università Telematica e-campus, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3926-3.ch008

Keywords: Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics / Media & Communications / Social Networking

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Abstract

The inherent human need for communication and socialization is the reason for the ever-increasing use of social networking services. Social networks are a very powerful communications tool that also has the ability of aggregating large volumes of information. However, if this user-related information is exploited in certain ways, it can have harmful consequences on user privacy. This chapter defines what privacy is in the context of social networks, demonstrates how user privacy can be violated, and supports these claims with examples of real incidents. Furthermore, it presents various countermeasures, as well as directions for future research with the common goal of the protection of user privacy.

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