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How people share digital images in social networks: a questionnaire-based study of privacy decisions and access control

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The blind sharing of digital images in social networks may lead to threats to privacy. Currently, privacy decision recommendations and access control mechanisms are inadequate with respect to sharing digital images in social networking systems. In this study, a questionnaire was designed to investigate the purposes, attitudes, preferences, modes and recommendations for sharing images (or making privacy decisions) based on studies of human-computer interaction. The survey results showed that first, there is a partial order based on either privacy levels or attribute tags for image sharing in social networks. Second, it is currently essential for social networks to have fine-grained access control settings. Third, online privacy calculus (utility maximization) is still valid for social network image sharing and the design of access control mechanisms. The findings of this survey may provide supporting evidence based on human-computer interaction for the design of models of privacy decisions and access control mechanisms for sharing images in social networks.

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    Xiaoxia Hu, Donghui Hu, Shuli Zheng, Wangwang Li, Fan Chen & Zhaopin Shu

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Hu, X., Hu, D., Zheng, S. et al. How people share digital images in social networks: a questionnaire-based study of privacy decisions and access control. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 18163–18185 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-017-4402-x

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