Resolving multi-party privacy conflicts in
social media
Introdution
As we know that social media is a
website or a applications that enable users to create and share content or to
participate in social networking… not the adult or teenage but the old
generation and kids in today’s life is involved in social media or social
networking, but this is also the fact that there are many negative aspects of
social media also…
Billions of items that are uploaded to
social media are co-owned by multiple users yet only the user that uploads the
item is allowed to set its privacy settings. This is a massive and serious
problem as users Privacy Preferences for co-owned items usually conflicts, so
applying the preferences of only one party risks such items being shared with
undesired recipient , which can lead to privacy violations with severe
consequences (e.g., users losing their jobs, being cyber stalked, etc.)
Individual Privacy Preferences
Negotiating
users have their own individual privacy
preferences about the item — i.e., to whom of their online friends they
would like to share the item if they were to decide it unilaterally . we assume
negotiating users specify their individual privacy preferences using
group-based access control, which is nowadays mainstream in Social Media ( eg.
Facebook , twitter , instagram etc.) however other excess control approaches
for social media could also be used conjuction with our proposed mechanism. Mainstream Social Media (Facebook, Google+,
etc.) have predefined groups and also allow users to define their own groups,
each of which is composed of set of friends.
Methodology
We sought to explore
situations with different degrees of sensitivity, as users’ behaviour to
resolve conflicts may be different depending on how sensitive items are.
However, this would have involved participants sharing with us sensitive items
of them. Participants sharing sensitive information in user studies about
privacy in Social Media was already identified as problematic in
related
literature as participants would always
seem reluctant to share sensitive
information, which biases the study towards non-sensitive issues only. Indeed,
this reluctance to share information that may be sensitive with researchers
during user surveys is not only associated with studies about privacy and
Social Media, but it has also been
extensively proven to happen in many other survey situations, including other
scientific disciplines such as psychology . A possible alternative to avoid
this problem could be one in which participants just selfreport how they behave
when they experience a multiparty privacy conflict without asking for any
sensitive information of them
CONCLUSION
In this,we
present the first mechanism for detecting and resolving privacy
conflicts in Social Media that is based on current empirical evidence
about privacy negotiations and disclosure driving factors in Social Media and
is able to adapt the conflict resolution strategy based on the
particular situation. In a nutshell, the mediator firstly inspects the
individual privacy policies of all users involved looking for possible
conflicts. If conflicts are found, the mediator proposes a solution for
each conflict according to a set of concession rules that model how users
would actually negotiate in this domain.
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