TY - JOUR

T1 - Social networking privacy: understanding the disconnect from policy to controls

AU - Anthonysamy, Pauline

AU - Greenwood, Phil

AU - Rashid, Awais

PY - 2013/6

Y1 - 2013/6

N2 - Social networking sites have become increasingly popular over recent years. However, there is a wide-spread level of dissatisfaction and lack of trust from users towards social network providers due to privacy concerns. This article attempts to uncover whether these feelings are justified by examining the degree of traceability between privacy policies and the privacy controls of social networking sites. Our aim was to determine whether the privacy controls actually reflect the contents of the privacy policies. We studied sixteen prominent social networking sites and discovered that there is a significant disconnect between privacy policies and privacy controls.

AB - Social networking sites have become increasingly popular over recent years. However, there is a wide-spread level of dissatisfaction and lack of trust from users towards social network providers due to privacy concerns. This article attempts to uncover whether these feelings are justified by examining the degree of traceability between privacy policies and the privacy controls of social networking sites. Our aim was to determine whether the privacy controls actually reflect the contents of the privacy policies. We studied sixteen prominent social networking sites and discovered that there is a significant disconnect between privacy policies and privacy controls.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879084778&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/MC.2012.326

DO - 10.1109/MC.2012.326

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:84879084778

VL - 46

SP - 60

EP - 67

JO - Computer

JF - Computer

SN - 0018-9162

IS - 6

ER -