Data Sharing

Online Social Networks allow people to build connections, personalised profiles and post content. Such profiles and posts present an opportunity for people to introduce themselves while expressing their personality, feelings, and other personal data on the web.

Putting Data Pieces Together

The small pieces of information shared online across multiplenet works, may seem harmless individually. However, over time they may reveal more cumulatively than the person intends, as these identifiable traces can be linked together and exploited.

Risks

The shared data can reveal more about an individual than they intend which may result in privacy exposure risks. Such risks can have potentially negative and even disastrous consequences for the person, for their employer, and even for national security.

Organisations

University of Strathclyde, UK
(Lead Research Organisation)
Northumbria University, UK
(Research Organisation)
The University of Edinburgh, UK
(Research Organisation)

Government of the UK
(Collaboration and
Project Partner)
Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
(Collaboration)
Bristows
(Project Partner)
Government office
for science
(Project Partner)