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Security and Privacy Issues Associated with Social Media

   

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Running head: SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL MEDIASecurity and Privacy Issues Associated with Social MediaName of the StudentStudent IDSubject CodeAssessment NumberSessionName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note:
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1SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL MEDIAExecutive Summary The main objective of this report is to get to know about the several and various security andprivacy issues and problems related to social media. It is an application that helps to make newfriends, exchange data and information by communicating virtually. The aim of this report is toidentify the security and privacy issues that are associated with social media applications.Moreover, the problems, challenges, relevant technologies and the impact of these issues on thesociety are also identified here.
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2SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL MEDIATable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Discussion........................................................................................................................................4Security and Privacy Issues in Social Media...............................................................................4Problems..................................................................................................................................4Relevant Technologies.............................................................................................................5Impact of the Security and Privacy Issues...............................................................................6Most Important Lesson............................................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7References........................................................................................................................................9
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3SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL MEDIAIntroductionThe computer based technologies, which help for creating and sharing any type of data orinformation or ideas through several communication networks that are present virtually is knownas social media. This social media has several features and aspects. The main feature is theinteractive Web 2.0 applications (Bertot, Jaeger & Hansen, 2012). The users have to createaccount in the application and thus can communicate with the entire world. There are severaltypes of social media platforms in the modern world. The most popular are the Facebook,Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and many more. Facebook has the largest number of users, whichcrosses over almost thirty billion in number (Gundecha & Liu, 2012). WhatsApp is the secondmost popular after Facebook. It came in the year 2009 and soon it gained popularity all over theworld. In the year 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for more profit. Currently, almost onebillion users are using WhatsApp and it is the most significant popular messaging and textingapplication. These social media applications are extremely popular for all the users andindividuals especially for the youth generation (Chen & Bryer, 2012). However, there are severalsecurity and privacy issues related to these social media platforms, which often turn out to bevulnerable for the society.The report covers a brief description about the security and privacy issues associated withsocial media. The report provides a detailed discussion on the challenges and problems occurreddue to the security and privacy issues. The report also discusses about the relevant technologiesof the social media and the impact of social media in modern society. The report further helps tounderstand what lessons are learnt from this discussion.
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