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To improve user's awareness, a possible method is to have privacy-related trainings for people to understand privacy concerns with the use of social media websites or apps. [19] The trainings can include information of how certain companies or apps help secure user's privacy, and skills to protect user's privacy.
The number one reason for these users was privacy concerns (48%), being followed by a general dissatisfaction with the social networking website (14%), negative aspects regarding social network friends (13%) and the feeling of getting addicted to the social networking website (6%).
It is estimated that the average cost of a data breach will be over $150 million by 2020, with the global annual cost forecast to be $2.1 trillion. [2] [3] As a result of data breaches, it is estimated that in first half of 2018 alone, about 4.5 billion records were exposed. [4]
National Public Data (NPD), a major government database, experienced one of the largest data breaches this past April, affecting approximately 2.9 billion Social Security records.
These were the worst data exposures of all time — and some companies have been hit more than once. Read The 10 Largest Data Breaches in U.S. History from Money Talks News.
The social networking website Tumblr is attacked by hackers. Consequently, 65,469,298 unique emails and passwords were leaked from Tumblr. The data breach's legitimacy is confirmed by computer security researcher Troy Hunt. [94] August: Yahoo! data breaches occurred. More than 3 billion users data are being leaked. [95]
In mid September 2021, The Wall Street Journal began publishing articles on Facebook based on internal documents from unknown provenance. Revelations included reporting of special allowances on posts from high-profile users ("XCheck"), subdued responses to flagged information on human traffickers and drug cartels, a shareholder lawsuit concerning the cost of Facebook (now Meta) CEO Mark ...
The UK’s data protection regulator has urged social media and video-sharing platforms to do more to protect children’s privacy online. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has set out ...