A Visual Privacy Tool to Help Users in Preserving Social Network Data

In the current era, social network platforms are increasingly important, especially for disseminating data that refers to virtual lives that, in most cases, are strictly coupled with real ones. For example, social networks permit us to share emotions, and ways of thinking, connect with people worldwide, find a job, etc. However, to have access to the virtual world, users need to register their data that, in most cases, univocally identify themselves. To this end, arise the necessity to make users aware of privacy issues that may occur when such an amount of data spread over social network platforms are mismanaged. In this work, we propose a visual privacy framework that improves the users’ awareness concerning disseminating their data over social network platforms. Moreover, we define interactive visual metaphors that permit users to understand which kind of information they share and how to manage information disseminated over different social network platforms.