Social networking websites are becoming the main channel for leaks. User privacy is facing a huge threat.

According to the data obtained by the rising Research and Statistics team, the personal privacy leaks of Chinese netizens have reached a very serious level, and the main cause of this situation is, it has gradually changed from "Trojan virus theft" to "organized and large-scale commercial collection and utilization ", however, social networking websites have become a huge business group that induces Internet users to disclose their privacy, record their privacy, and use the privacy of Internet users for profit.

Seven risks to users

After registering personal data on a social networking website, Internet users are prone to seven major security risks, including mobile phone number leakage, MSN account and password theft, and use various methods to defraud Internet users of personal data for profit, it has become an important source of social network profit.

In popular social networking websites, the personal data that users are required to fill in includes gender, age, education level, work condition, marital status, real photos, and mobile phone numbers. If you want to use the dating and game functions of the website, you must provide more information, including the MSN account password, QQ account password, and Outlook email address book. It can be said that if all the information is filled in, there will be almost no privacy.

In addition, it is not a separate action of a website to lure users into entering private information and frequently harassing their friends through "searching for friends" or "game invitations, many SNS have become an important means to attract users. Almost all websites are using SNS, which poses a serious threat to user security.

"Disclaimer" avoids legal liability

Rising companies pointed out that the vast majority of dating websites are aware of the security risks raised by social networking websites. They use various "disclaimer", "user registration instructions", and other methods, he has circumvented his/her legal liability.

For example, in the registration help of a website, "the company is not responsible for direct, indirect, accidental, or special damages, these damages come from changes in the information transmitted by improper use of product services, online purchase of goods or similar services, online transactions, illegal use of services or users ".

For example, the privacy protection of a website says, "the user must understand, when using the services we provide, there are threats, slander, objectionable or illegal content or actions from any other person or violations of others' rights (including intellectual property rights) the user must bear the above risks for anonymous or fake information, ** The Network and partner companies do not provide any type of guarantee for the service ".

Relevant laws need to be enacted urgently

According to industry estimates, more than 95% of internet users aged 15 to 30 in large and medium-sized cities will register one or more social websites, therefore, the security risks and personal privacy risks are very serious. In a test by rising, a 30-friend MSN account was used to register a social networking website. After logging on, 16 of the friends entered their own MSN account and password, store the friend list on the server of the website. Once these private information is leaked, the consequences are unimaginable.

According to the survey, 54% of EU members worried that their children would suffer from cyber violence. 17 social media sites, including YouTube, Yahoo (Europe), and Facebook, have recently signed agreements in Luxembourg to protect EU minors under the coordination of the European Commission.

In addition to raising awareness of self-defense by netizens, rising security experts suggest that, in view of the current poor privacy protection, the relevant national departments should introduce targeted laws and regulations, investigate and punish enterprise behaviors that use personal privacy for profit through legal channels or industry norms. At the same time, the social network industry should take the initiative to carry out industry self-discipline, not only to see the short-term benefits brought about by infringement of user privacy, but to maintain the long-term healthy development of the industry.