Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

Photo sharing has become increasingly easy with the rise of social media. Social networking sites (SNSs), such as Instagram and Facebook, are well known for their image-sharing capabilities. However, this brings the concern of photo privacy, such as who may see the images of a user who is included in a post. Photo privacy settings offer detailed and more secure ways to share a user’s photos, however, this would require SNS users to understand these settings. To better grasp users’ understanding of photo privacy settings, we conducted a structured interview with Instagram users. We found that users were aware of the majority of the privacy settings asked about and that they accurately perceived their photo privacy safety based on their knowledge of photo privacy settings.

Keywords

Cybersecurity Social networks

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Barth

de Jong

M. D. T.

(2017). The privacy paradox – Investigating discrepancies between expressed privacy concerns and actual online behavior – A systematic literature review. Telematics and Informatics, 34(7), 1038-1058. doi:10.1016/j.tele.2017.04.013

Figl

Lehrer

(2020). Privacy nudging: How the design of privacy settings affects disclosure in social networks. In ECIS 2020 Proceedings, Research-in-Progress Papers, 1-11.

Fogues

R. L.

Murukannaiah

P. K.

Such

J. M.

Singh

M. P.

(2017). Sharing policies in multiuser privacy scenarios: Incorporating context, preferences, and arguments in decision making. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 24(1), 1-29. doi:10.1145/3038920

Huang

Vitak

(2022). “Finsta gets all my bad pictures”: Instagram users’ self-presentation across Finsta and Rinsta accounts. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW1), 1-25. doi:10.1145/3512916

Liu

Zhu

Zhang

Zhou

(2022). Privacy intelligence: A survey on image privacy in online social networks. ACM Computing Surveys, 55(8), 1-35. doi:10.1145/3547299

Misra

Such

J. M.

(2016). How socially aware are social media privacy controls?. Computer, 49(3), 96-99. doi:10.1109/MC.2016.83

Morton

(2013). Measuring inherent privacy concern and desire for privacy – A pilot survey study of an instrument to measure Dispositional Privacy Concern. In 2013 International Conference on Social Computing, 468-477. IEEE. doi:10.1109/SocialCom.2013.73

Perez

(2020, November 17). Instagram expands new ‘Guides’ feature to all users, upgrades Search. TechCrunch. Retrieved February 6, 2023, from https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/instagram-expands-new-guides-feature-to-all-users/

Investigating User Photo Privacy Settings on Instagram

Abstract

Keywords

Get full access to this article

References