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Privacy And National Security Challenges in Online Social Networks - Couverture souple

Abdulhamid, Shafi'i Muhammad

 
9783659328329: Privacy And National Security Challenges in Online Social Networks
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659328324 ISBN 13 : 9783659328329
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

A social networking site is an on-line service that attracts a society of subscribers and provides such users with a multiplicity of tools for distributing personal data and creating subscribers-generated content directed to a given user’s interest and personal life. Operators of online social networks are gradually giving out potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers. Some criminals too uses information gathered through membership profile in social networks to break people's Personal Identification Numbers, e-mail accounts and passwords. In this book, we analysed how private information can easily be made public in such sites. The book also looked at how it can be used to distort national security, how it became the new weapon of mass mobilisation and also how social networks have became the rallying forces for revolutions and social justice. At the end recommendations and countermeasures were made on how to safe guard subscribers’ personal data.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A social networking site is an on-line service that attracts a society of subscribers and provides such users with a multiplicity of tools for distributing personal data and creating subscribers-generated content directed to a given user’s interest and personal life. Operators of online social networks are gradually giving out potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers. Some criminals too uses information gathered through membership profile in social networks to break people's Personal Identification Numbers, e-mail accounts and passwords. In this book, we analysed how private information can easily be made public in such sites. The book also looked at how it can be used to distort national security, how it became the new weapon of mass mobilisation and also how social networks have became the rallying forces for revolutions and social justice. At the end recommendations and countermeasures were made on how to safe guard subscribers’ personal data.

Biographie de l'auteur

Shafi’i Muhammad ABDULHAMID (MNCS, MIAENG, MIACSIT) obtained M.Sc. in Computer Science from Bayero University Kano, Nigeria (2011) and B.Tech. in Mathematics/Computer Science from the Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria (2004). His current research interests are in Cyber Security, Network Security and Computational Intelligence.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659328324
ISBN 13 
9783659328329
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
64
Coordonnées du fabricant
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