Security Concerns in Facebook

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Security Concerns in Facebook
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Introduction
Facebook can be said as the one of the most used social media website that is been
world-wide by millions of people. The site was created by Mark Zuckerberg in the year of
2004 and has advanced a lot since then. The security options have also advanced a lot since
the creation of the site. Security is one of the major concerns for the organisation for the
improvement of the systems1 .Although of its strict rules and regulation there are some of the
major security drawbacks that are concerning the people using the platform and the
organisation2. Discussed in this paper are some of the major cases where the security of the
organisation was overthrown which caused some of the major chaos in the public in the
recent years.
Discussion
The Facebook can be explained as the book where people can connect to other people
and use the function of the platform. In order to access the platform the individual needs to
enrol some of the major personal information in the system for example name, phone
number, email id etc. After the person is in Facebook, can access people all over the world
and can connect with them. The website of the platform can access different personal
information of from the PC like the IP, webcam, browser details and other among all. Other
than this the Facebook also haves android and the IPhone applications which also takes the
permit of the users phone details like the contact information, camera , gps, browsers, gallery,
1 Zlatolas, Lili Nemec, et al. "Privacy antecedents for SNS self-disclosure: The case of
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2 Pons, Alexander, et al. "Security and privacy implications of'do not track'." International
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file managers, virtual keyboards, microphone and others. Thus, if there is no proper security
thread in the system then the personal information of the users can be at high risk3. This is
because of the factor that hackers can access the information and can use it for foul plays.
Other than this the Facebook also access the information from the classifieds. That is if any
one logins to the market places like the Amazon, the Facebook take the wish list information
from the servers and use them as ads in the platform. It can be said that in the recent times
Facebook knows everything about a person.
Some of the major security issues that the organisation is been facing in the recent
years have troubled the public a lot. There are number of times the organisation is accused of
stealing the data of the peoples and selling them to the third party vendors. In the recent past
many of the countries including the Britain have accused the organisation and ordered the
probe to the organisation4. This has affected the organisation a lot. One of the major such
hack that affected the organisation internally, employees who used the company’s moderation
software which is software to review and remove the contents of that are not well for the
organisation. A bug which was learned in the year of the 2017, exposed the threats that the
personal profiles of the employees appearing as the notification of the activity log of the
groups. The data of the employees were visible to all the people in the groups other than the
admins of the group.
3 Dehling, Tobias, et al. "Exploring the far side of mobile health: information security and
privacy of mobile health apps on iOS and Android." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 3.1 (2015).
4 Sicari, Sabrina, et al. "Security, privacy and trust in Internet of Things: The road
ahead." Computer networks 76 (2015): 146-164.