Denial of Choice: Group Level Disclosure of Private Information
While online social networks (OSNs) allow users to selectively share content as well as limit access to information within users’ own virtual spaces, unfortunately there is little or no control on other-generated content. The full study explores an interd
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School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia {tchutikulrungsee,yalsaggaf}@csu.edu.au 2 School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia [email protected] 3 School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia [email protected] Abstract. While online social networks (OSNs) allow users to selectively share content as well as limit access to information within users’ own virtual spaces, unfortunately there is little or no control on other-generated content. The full study explores an interdependent privacy regarding other-generated disclosures on OSNs from insiders’ perspectives (the ‘discloser’ and the ‘disclosed’), based upon their lived experiences. An online survey was used to recruit suitable participants who meet the purposive sampling criteria. This paper presents some preliminary findings from a current study, based on an online survey. The online survey result reveals a likelihood of activities associated with other-generated disclosure. This study makes a contribution to the scant literature on OSN interdependent privacy as well as draws attention to tackle these privacy issues in order to discover effective detection mechanisms towards practical solutions in the future. Keywords: Online social networks · Information privacy · Users’ privacy · Disclosure
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Introduction
Online privacy is not only a global problem becoming difficult to ignore but also one of the most significant debates in law and moral philosophy, particularly in an era of ubiq‐ uitous computing and online social networks (OSNs). One of major privacy issues on OSNs is information disclosures by either users themselves or others during interaction or activities, especially tagging and re-sharing. While managing information we share ourselves is difficult, how to manage information that others share about us is more complicated and challenging. Of particular concern is that there is little or no control on other-generated disclosures, particularly outside users’ profiles. For instance, if a user posts a comment in a friend’s space, the friend cannot specify which users can view the comment. In another case, when a user uploads a photo and tags friends who appear in the photo, the tagged friends cannot restrict who can see this photo.
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016 Published by Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. All Rights Reserved D. Kreps et al. (Eds.): HCC12 2016, IFIP AICT 474, pp. 229–240, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44805-3_19
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Other-generated disclosures lead to privacy issues such as privacy breaches, privacy invasions, privacy violation, privacy infringement, privacy threats, or privacy risks despite existing lengthy privacy policies as well as fine-grained privacy settings. In advanced societies, media have repetitively reported other-generated disclosures on news stories, court cases, and allegations. Some cases of other-generated disclo‐
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