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Authors:
Yasuhiko Watanabe
Leo Mashimo
Toshiki Nakano
Hiromu Nishimura
Yoshihiro Okada
Keywords: personal information; Twitter; SNS; privacy risk; unreal name account user.
Abstract:
Nowadays, many people use a Social Networking Service (SNS). Most SNS users are careful in protecting the privacy of personal information: name, age, gender, address, telephone number, birthday, etc. However, some SNS users disclose their personal information that can threaten their privacy and security even if they use unreal name accounts. In this study, we investigated how these users treated their tweets that potentially threatened their privacy and security, in other words, whether they deleted them or not. We collected 233 cases where Twitter users submitted tweets promising to disclose their personal information and they did so honestly. Then, we investigated when they submitted and deleted their tweets disclosing their personal information. The results of our three-month survey showed that 40 out of the 233 cases were deleted and 50 % of them were deleted within three weeks after they were submitted.
Pages: 9 to 14
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021
Publication date: July 18, 2021
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2519-8351
ISBN: 978-1-61208-884-6
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from July 18, 2021 to July 22, 2021