Abstract

MARTINEZ, Francisco R. Cortes et al. After click the submit button, control over personal information and privacy is lost: a case study in Mexico. RISTI [online]. 2017, n.21, pp.115-128. ISSN 1646-9895.  https://doi.org/10.17013/risti.21.115-128.

Since the beginning of electronic services, Internet users have disclosure their personal and financial information to different web servers, losing control over their information. Years later, with the popularization of social networking sites, users' personal information is available and flows quickly among community members, exposing their privacy. Therefore, several researchers have studied the perception of users about privacy and security in the Internet, virtual worlds, and social networking sites since. In this sense, the first contribution of the present work is the exposition of problems of privacy and security existing in the process of registration. In addition, it describes the problems that can cause the lack of security and privacy on social networking sites. Finally, the results of a survey on privacy and security of Mexican users, coinciding with previous work, are presented.

Keywords : authentication; cyber-crime; fraud; identity theft; privacy.

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