Title :
Are photos on Social Networks really private?
Author :
Costantino, Gianpiero ; Martinelli, F. ; Sgandurra, Daniele
Author_Institution :
Ist. di Inf. e Telematica, Consiglio Naz. delle Ric., Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
Everyday, people upload thousand of private photos on Social Networks. Usually, these photos are available only to their social friends but, in some cases, users inadvertently allow third-party applications to access their data or, analogously, friends allow applications to access their friends´ data. Hence, uploaded private pictures may also be accessed by third parties. In this paper, we introduce Phook (Photo-Book), which is a Web application available at www.myphook.com, aimed at searching among users´ photos of online Social Network. After two months of activity, Phook was capable of collecting more than 70 Millions private pictures of Facebook users.
Keywords :
Internet; data privacy; security of data; social networking (online); Facebook; Phook; Web application; data access; online social networks; photo-book; private photos; social friends; third-party applications; Authorization; Data privacy; Facebook; Privacy; Servers; Social Networks; Web-application; permissions; privacy; third-party applications; trust;
Conference_Titel :
Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6403-4
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2013.6567223
