Hi Marr Aldos , its good for you to read about "OSINT" and introduce to data gathering from social media

I would categorise risks or threats, for instance life in danger, psychological shock, reputation damage (human and behavioural science aspects), and economic damage (theft in your home, your bank account, your properties, scam where you pay believing it's a real shop and it's not).

Then you work on scenarios: where the user gets more exposed to risks in a sequence of actions, where the users improve their protection (reduce risk).

Third parameter after threat, scenario, it's the adversary.

Is the adversary a thief, a murderer, an incompetent administration or company managing data insufficiently that is well intentioned and friendly but clumsy?

With all this you build tables.

You can run simulations. I would use Agent Based Models (modeling people behaviour).

Does it give you ideas you feel comfortable to use?

Looks like you are searching for a research topic. How about a user study to find out whether they understand the privacy policies of social media networks?

You can get a purposive/random sample of social media users

You can do a survey to find out what level privacy they expect from one social medium - FB is probably the best

Then you can compare that with the actual privacy policies that FB implements

Understand the common perception vs. the actual policies and find gaps

Recommendation would be increasing awareness (if a serious gap exists)

Inham Hassen Thank you so much for your comment. Actually some of my classmates worked on this question last year , they made a user study and they got a interesting result. if you have further comment or ideas like this more welcome to share it.

Renaud Di Francesco thanks ,I will read about it then i will update you about my finding.

Parsa Adib you mentioned a good approach i will see what can i do it, thank you

Dear Marr Aldos,

The issue of privacy, i.e. posted personal information on social media portals, is one of the main topics of research undertaken in the field of currently developing new online media. The issue of privacy on social media portals is mainly related to the security of personal data, confidential information, sometimes strictly private, only shared so-called. friends on particular social media portals where a specific person has an Internet user profile.

Best wishes

Dear Marr Aldos,

Below are potentially interesting topics for research in the field of

privacy on Social network, Social Media portals:

I suggest the following questions and research problems in the above topic:

What information about users of social media websites have technology companies that run these social media portals?

Online technology companies that run social media portals such as Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Tweeter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, Snapchat, etc. collect large amounts of data about Internet users from various websites, including mainly users of these social media portals.

Google Group collects this type of information about Internet users based on the Google web search service and other shared information services, including Google Drive, Gmail, etc.

Information on Internet users is collected, among others, by the so-called cookies installed in Internet browsers.

In addition, large Internet technology companies have the ability to combine information downloaded from various Internet sources, from various information services into one avatar, which is an electronic equivalent of a given Internet user and is built from Big Data database systems.

For the needs of these considerations, the issue of the security of classified data stored in Big Data database systems run by internet technology companies managing social media portals should be added.

There have been frequent thefts made by cybercriminals who, from these Big Data systems, stole classified and sensitive information about hundreds of thousands or millions of users of particular social media portals.

The development of social media portals therefore generates an increased risk of theft of data on users of social media portals.

On the other hand, technological internet companies such as Google, Facebook, etc. have the ability to obtain classified, sensitive and personal information from the Internet about the users of websites, including search engines and social media portals, who use these information services.

These companies in their Big Data database systems are gradually expanding the scope of data related to Internet users and are constantly expanding the avatars mentioned above, ie electronic equivalents of individual Internet users.

Therefore, the colloquial wording was created: "If you are not on the Internet, you do not exist."

There is one more issue, namely the above-mentioned activity of internet technology companies expanding their information resources Big Data and orz contained in these resources avatars of individual Internet users, how does this correlate with the legal protection of personal data in individual countries?

In view of the above, I am asking you to answer the following question:

Does anyone of you research the scope of information from which are built avatars of individual users of social media portals, which are created and developed in Big Data database systems managed by online technology companies running these social media portals?

In addition, I suggest the following questions and research problems in the above topic:

Why do financial institutions in some countries verify the potential borrowers in the information resources of social media websites with impunity?

Many business companies in internet marketing collect and analyze comments, posts, entries, etc. from social media portals.

It is also done by some financial institutions, banks acquiring additional information about potential borrowers and insurance companies against possible conclusion of insurance contract. Commercially operating companies and financial institutions operate in this area on the border of the law on the protection of personal data.

Until this type of acquisition of information about potential customers is legally regulated, then commercially operating companies and financial institutions will conduct such activity. In addition, the issue of the security of this type of data about users of social media portals is of particular importance, as there have been effective cybercriminal attacks that resulted in the theft of personal data of users of social media portals.

Another proposal for a research topic in this field:

How can the use of social media portals change people's social behavior, what new opportunities and what new risks it generates?

Social media can affect the personal lives of individual people. The sociological behavior of people is changing. Some people exchange traditional contacts with other people for contacts via social media portals. It changes the sociology of people's behavior, it affects sociological behavior, it generates new types of problems that also affect behavioral economics and the behavior of entire communities. In addition, there is the issue of the risk of losing personal data that may be stolen from social media portals. This risk also shapes the potential discomfort of using social media portals, if it turns out that some part of personal data has been mistakenly made public or stolen by cybercriminals. Unfortunately, despite the assurances of companies that run social media portals, information on these websites is not always fully secured and can be stolen by cybercriminals. In addition, the issue of downloading data from social media portals by large companies to Big Data database systems should be added in order to process them for marketing purposes. The issue of privacy in social media is very important and is related to the security of personal information. Privacy is at risk in terms of information posted on social media portals.

I propose the following proposal for a research topic in this area:

Is the risk of cybercriminal attacks on Big Data database systems containing personal data of social media portal users growing?

The field of research and business applications in the field of obtaining, archiving, analyzing and processing data in Big Data database systems has been developing strongly for several years.

There were hacking theft of personal, sensitive and secret data regarding users of social networks.

Are the results of research known, or are you familiar with publications describing risk management processes in the area of obtaining, archiving, analyzing and processing data in Big Data systems run by technological internet companies such as Google, Facebook, etc.

Technological internet companies such as Google, Facebook, etc. have the ability to obtain classified, sensitive and personal data from the Internet about the users of websites, including search engines and social media portals, who use these information services.

For the needs of these considerations, the issue of the security of classified data stored in Big Data database systems run by internet technology companies managing social media portals should be added.

There have been frequent thefts made by cybercriminals who, from these Big Data systems, stole classified and sensitive information about hundreds of thousands or millions of users of particular social media portals.

The development of social media portals therefore generates an increased risk of theft of data on users of social media portals.

Therefore, technological internet companies that run social media portals but also other companies that collect large amounts of data about users of specific, information services should continually develop and improve risk management systems for potential data loss from Big Data information resources.

Due to the above, in many companies, especially in large corporations, integrated risk management systems are built and improved.

Integrated risk management systems combine risk management processes in various areas of a company, institution or other organization.

One of the areas of risk management, the importance of which in many companies is growing, is risk management in the area of ??obtaining, archiving, analyzing and processing data in Big Data database systems.

Another proposal for a research topic in this field:

How should risk management and information security systems be improved on social media portals?

In my opinion, sensitive personal data concerning individual users who set up profiles, collected on social media portals, are not fully secure. This is confirmed by the occurrence of data leaks, data theft by cybercriminals.

In connection with the above, the issue of information security on the Internet is becoming an increasingly global problem and therefore, in the global approach, institutions and security systems for the transfer of information on the Internet should be developed. The security of information on the Internet can refer to many aspects of data security both at the level of central state institutions and international organizations as well as the security of personal data of individual citizens, sensitive data of citizens collected on various websites, including social media portals. The improvement of risk management and information security systems at the supranational level is also a key issue. Technological companies managing social media portals on the one hand try to improve data security systems about users setting up accounts on social media portals. On the other hand, it is also important to cooperate with key, central data security institutions on the Internet that operate transnational. This is important from the point of view of improving information security systems on the Internet in order to limit the possibility of using social media portals by cybercriminals operating transnational, using various social engineering techniques.

I propose the following proposal for a research topic in this area:

Is the security of information on the Internet becoming an increasingly global problem?

The issue of information security on the Internet is becoming an increasingly global problem, and therefore, in the global approach, institutions and systems for the security of information transfer on the Internet should be developed. The security of information on the Internet can concern many aspects of data security both at the level of central state institutions and international organizations as well as the security of personal data of individual citizens, sensitive data of citizens collected on various websites, including social media portals.

In my opinion, in a superwar perspective, security should also be developed in other issues of public security, including economic, financial, ecological, cybernetic security, information security, data transfer, various factors of capital in international perspective. Internationally operating institutions should be developed, which should improve various systems, including the above-mentioned categories, security systems operating at the international level. In this way, the world in various aspects could develop more effectively, in a balanced model, in seeking to reduce the scale of many negative societal phenomena, reduce the scale of economic stratification of different social strata, reduce the scale of international income disparities and equipping with production factors. In addition, in connection with the progressive global warming of the Earth, discussions, institutions and activities in the field of environmental protection should also be developed, including reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, improvement of waste segregation techniques, development of renewable energy sources, internationally developed eco-innovations, etc.

Best wishes