P RIVACY I N SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES Presented by Shikha Saini u

A GENDA Introduction Privacy policies of social networking sites Privacy controls on social networking sites Social network threat to kids privacy Pornography used in social networking fraud Sources

I NTRODUCTION Social Networking Sites are websites that let people to socialise with one another, share interests and information and post information, photos and videos about themselves for others to look at for example Face book, twitter, LinkedIn. SNS are facing many challenges and privacy and security are becoming increasingly significant.

P RIVACY POLICIES OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES When you sign up you provide with personnel details Don’t register if you are under age 13 Provides with tools to modify personnel information Allows you to control visibility and accessibility of information

P RIVACY CONTROLS ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

S OCIAL NETWORK THREAT TO KIDS PRIVACY 92% parents are concerned that children share too much information online. 85% parents are more concerned about online privacy than they were five years ago. 75% parents think social networking sites don’t do a good job of protecting children’s online privacy

P ORNOGRAPHY USED IN SOCIAL NETWORKING FRAUD A fraudulent website called phishing has tried to make an association between a pornographic website and the social networking brand. The motive was to trick users into believing that they can view pornography with all the added features for free within the social networking website. If fraudsters are successful, the user would have given up his or her login credentials to the phishing website in the hopes of viewing pornography or participating in adult chat.

S OURCES Google scholar Library ( academic articles)

R EFERENCES y-used-as-bait-in-social-networking-fraud/ social-networks-threat-to-kids-privacy/ -privacy-on-social-networking-services.php

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