Comments on: Social networking privacy issues – signing up

By: vikky

vikky — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:51:51 +0000

hello everyone, i agree to what all have said about privacy issues in social networking websites. im also doing a thesis on these privacy issues. if anyone has information relating to these please help me forward. regards vikky.
my e.mail id- vignesh2808_at_ gmail . com

By: hadro

hadro — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:07:48 +0000

By the way, my email!
hadrien.b (at) hotmail.fr

By: hadro

hadro — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:06:57 +0000

Hi all!
Thanks for this good article. I think we all agree on the fact that privacy issues are getting omnipresent nowdays and that something has to be done.

I am a French student and I am starting a thesis on privacy and trust issues on Internet and especially on social networks. If any of you have links, references or any kind of infos to share with me, or if you are working on this topic or have done anything related to that, do not hesitate to contact me by email.

Cheers!

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security and more » Social networking privacy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:27:00 +0000

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By: Philipp

Philipp — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:40:48 +0000

I have to admit that I use some service where I inputed quite alot informations, real name and so on, I didn't cared much about what their privacy policy was. I didn't inputed my phone number nor my address, but anyway it's quite enough....For all other services I use which require a name/address I enter fake data, as in my eyes this isn't needed to be known.

In my case the reason for the lack of interest was, that I didn't had heard something neg. about the service, but it's widely used. SO IT HAVE TO BE GOOD, but how could I decide if they use my data trustworthy? Just because no one writes about spam mails he received since that day he registered at that service doesn't mean that they keep your data secret, nor does it mean that it will stay so if they're selled to something bigger. And at such an information level the mailaddress is mostly the smallest problem, and the easiest one you can drop/change...

Another problem arises on nicknames...many of us (as I do too) use one nickname all over the net. It's no problem to find other platforms where you're registered, maybe you can as well collect from these variety of platforms even some more data or a more concrete profile of yours...and that can get you maybe into trouble next time you have a job interview, some bosses uses companies who crawl the internet for information about yours...maybe some real bad story about yours will appear from that crawl...wouldn't be good?!?

Many of us are aware of the problems not to input everywhere their email addresses, the careful use of our real identity is sadly alot less distinct.

By: David Kierznowski

David Kierznowski — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:48:17 +0000

Blipin: Yes, it’s a real problem, privacy in the 21st century, especially when everyone wants to give it up so freely!

By: Bipin 3~ Upadhyay

Bipin 3~ Upadhyay — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:11:58 +0000

@David:
Yup.
I am not signed up on anyone of these (apart from some absolute no-info & no-friends logins, for time-to-time analysis), yet I see users coming to my blog from some of these. Especially Orkut, which is pretty much popular in India.
And hey, I got my pics on some profiles too :)

So far well and good, just hope that nobody provides my mail id… or *gasp* phone number.

@Sarah:
Nice work. I am looking forward to other articles. :)

By: David Kierznowski

David Kierznowski — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:58:23 +0000

What really pi**ses me off, is the fact that other people who know you post photos and info about you on the web, so even if you stay away from these services, your still in someones or somethings database.