Tag Archives: privacy

Data Protection on privacy in social networking sites

Obviously there are a number of privacy concerns which must be tackled with when creating a social networking service and there are a number of laws which we must be aware of in this regard. Especially with kind of crazy … Continue reading

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Facebook Privacy Concerns

This post is being made, not particularly as an attack on Facebook, as Myspace had the same sort of problems when it was the biggest player, and we believe any company which rises to such heights will be a risk … Continue reading

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Peer to Peer

Peer-to-peer is “The sharing of computer resources and services by direct exchange between systems” (Ding, et al., 2004). This was initially created to allow for higher performance by connecting computers together directly without needing to be coordinated by a central … Continue reading

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Privacy settings

Privacy is a big concern when grouping photographs of people together. Facebook has very complex privacy settings to decide who can see which photos and we need to consider this carefully. First to be considered is the privacy of the … Continue reading

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Week 8

Today we were joined by Richard Gomer, who is acting as a critical friend to Tag4Fun and provides an external viewpoint on the project. This week we started by discussing and finalising the scope of idea. There were some concerns … Continue reading

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Proposed Architecture

(Note that this is proposed before we have completed the research on linked data – so this is subject to change) This first thing to notice is that there are many eTags servers in existence – the “official” one existing … Continue reading

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