Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online

© 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Online social networks (OLSNs) are electronically-based social milieux where individuals gather virtually to socialize. The behavior and characteristics of these networks can provide evidence relevant for detecting and prosecuting...

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Main Authors: Kim, J., Baskerville, Richard, Ding, Y.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69189
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author Kim, J.
Baskerville, Richard
Ding, Y.
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description © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Online social networks (OLSNs) are electronically-based social milieux where individuals gather virtually to socialize. The behavior and characteristics of these networks can provide evidence relevant for detecting and prosecuting policy violations, crimes, terrorist activities, subversive political movements, etc. Some existing methods and tools in the fields of business analytics and digital forensics are useful for such investigations. While the privacy rights of individuals are widely respected, the privacy rights of social groups are less well developed. In the current development of OLSNs and information technologies, the compromise of group privacy may lead to the violation of individual privacy. Adopting an explorative literature review, we examine the privacy kill chain that compromises group privacy as a means to compromise individual privacy. The latter is regulated, while the former is not. We show how the kill chain makes the need for protecting group privacy important and feasible from the perspectives of social, legal, ethical, commercial, and technical perspectives. We propose a research agenda to help societies and organizations strike the proper balance between the benefits and costs of both OLSNs and investigative technologies.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-691892018-10-02T07:30:14Z Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online Kim, J. Baskerville, Richard Ding, Y. © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Online social networks (OLSNs) are electronically-based social milieux where individuals gather virtually to socialize. The behavior and characteristics of these networks can provide evidence relevant for detecting and prosecuting policy violations, crimes, terrorist activities, subversive political movements, etc. Some existing methods and tools in the fields of business analytics and digital forensics are useful for such investigations. While the privacy rights of individuals are widely respected, the privacy rights of social groups are less well developed. In the current development of OLSNs and information technologies, the compromise of group privacy may lead to the violation of individual privacy. Adopting an explorative literature review, we examine the privacy kill chain that compromises group privacy as a means to compromise individual privacy. The latter is regulated, while the former is not. We show how the kill chain makes the need for protecting group privacy important and feasible from the perspectives of social, legal, ethical, commercial, and technical perspectives. We propose a research agenda to help societies and organizations strike the proper balance between the benefits and costs of both OLSNs and investigative technologies. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69189 10.1007/s10796-018-9856-5 Springer restricted
spellingShingle Kim, J.
Baskerville, Richard
Ding, Y.
Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online
title Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online
title_full Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online
title_fullStr Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online
title_full_unstemmed Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online
title_short Breaking the Privacy Kill Chain: Protecting Individual and Group Privacy Online
title_sort breaking the privacy kill chain: protecting individual and group privacy online
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69189