Privacy, Security, and Ethical Issues in Facebook, Google, and IoT

This essay analyzes the critical privacy and security issues associated with Facebook, Google, and developing applications like the Internet of Things (IoT). It explores the psychological effects of Facebook use, including feelings of jealousy and addiction, and the platform's privacy vulnerabilities, such as the exposure of private information and lack of user control over news feeds. The essay also critiques Google for potential tax avoidance, misuse of search results, and data privacy concerns, including intellectual property issues and the company's data-sharing practices. Furthermore, it examines the security challenges within the IoT, highlighting the risk of hacking smart devices and the lack of security standards, which can lead to data breaches and false positives. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of addressing these issues to mitigate risks and protect user data in an increasingly interconnected world.

Issues associated with Facebook, Google and
other developing applications

Introduction
Analyzing the issues related to Facebook,
Google and developing applications such as
IoT
Use of Facebook has psychological effects,
included feelings of jealousy, stress, lack of
consideration as well as addiction to the
social media
Issues related to Google are included for
avoidance of tax, misuse as well as
manipulation of the search results
Security and privacy are issues related to

Issues associated with Facebook,
Google and IoT
 Facebook at risk as information which is
private is made public so that each and
everyone can access to it
 Default as well as recommended
settings which provide access to the
friend’s data applications (Burton et al.
2018).
 Removal of the user’s control over
posting of recent activities on Facebook
wall
 Uncomfortable situations as it provides
too visibility to activities of Facebook by
automatic posting of the activities on
walls of Facebook (Kang 2018).

Issues associated with Facebook,
Google and IoT (Contd.)
 In Facebook, there is no control of
users over the news feed shown the
homepage (Puthal et al. 2017).
 Facebook games are against security
as well as privacy as it encourages
users to connect with lot of people
 Quiz can take scam page as poll can
sign to the mobile subscriptions
without knowledge
 Rogue applications can deliver
malware, abuse of the data of users
and promotion of Facebook scams

Issues associated with Facebook,
Google and IoT (Contd.)
 Criticism of Google is included avoidance of tax, misuse as
well as manipulation of the search results
 Issue of intellectual property; concerns related to compilation
of the data can violate privacy of people in addition to
collaboration with Google Earth (Ray 2016).
 Criticism pertain issues which are not addressed by the cyber
laws
 Change in the privacy of Google enables company to share of
data across varieties of services
 The users of Smartphone tend not to go towards Google.com
to search for the hotels and gifts (Silverman 2017).

Issues associated with Facebook,
Google and IoT (Contd.)
 Google reported that there are bugs in the Google docs
which allowed unintended access to the private documents
 Cookies of Google expired in two years, but it is again
renewed itself when the services are started (Want, Schilit
and Jenson 2015).
 Most of the users suspected that Google is collected and
aggregated data about the internet users throughout using
various tools which can provide to developers like Google
Analytics (Hogan and Piccarreta 2018).

Issues associated with Facebook,
Google and IoT (Contd.)
Security is a serious concern for
IoT as it draws attention of tech
firms, government agencies across
world
Hacking of various systems such as
smart fridges, drug infusion camps,
radio, thermostats
Impact on communicational models
as well as technologies (Linthicum
2016).
In IoT, there is lack of presence of
outliers which can lead to false
positives as well as negative
positives

Conclusion
Social media becomes a vital parts of
person’s life.
There are possibilities of data leakages and
theft that can lead to undesirable situations
of fraudulent.
On the social media websites such as
Facebook, the users can create fake accounts
and make spam.
A big issue in IoT environment is lean how to
patch with vulnerabilities of IoT devices

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