Privacy Detection and Management with Facebook Photos

As more people around the world gain access to the Internet, the user base of online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, and Instagram will continue to grow. Due to the prevalence and ubiquity of social media, more personal content is being migrated online and more people are using online data as a way to assess others both personally and professionally. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to be able to manage the quality and quantity of personal content that is available on the Internet. Unfortunately, the sheer amount of data uploaded to social networks makes this an extremely difficult goal to realize. For a typical online user, the amount of personal content continues to accumulate on the Internet, raising a significant amount of privacy concerns commonly discussed in the mainstream media. Though many social media sites offer advanced and customized control over the privacy settings of personally uploaded data, the fact that few users utilize these features, coupled with the personal content uploaded by “friends” on social media, lends itself to a wealth of personal content online that people often do not realize