Law & Security

A list to be updated relating press & research papers on the dangers of social media technology:

- NetworkWorld: US military wants to protect social media privacy
(US military concearns about social media are not new: Pentagon Orders Review of Social Networking

- InSecurity Complex: Searchable Facebook user data posted to Pirate Bay

- BBC: Facebook data harvester speaks out

- The Official Lookout Blog: Introducing the App Genome Project (about the many iPhone and Android application stealing and using personal data)

Some research about social media issues:
- Debatin e.a. (2009): "Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences"

- Fogel, Nehmad (2009), "Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns"

- E. Ur, Ganapathy (2009): "Evaluating Attack Amplification in Online Social Networks"