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

fYear

2013

fDate

20-24 May 2013

Firstpage

162

Lastpage

165

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6403-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTS.2013.6567223

Filename

6567223