Health Data, Social Media, and Privacy Awareness: A Pilot Study

Prachotan Reddy Bathi*, G. Deepa

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Abstract

Despite several disputes and the overall perceived lack of privacy on social media platforms among the general population, they are now widely used around the globe and have become commonplace. Vast volumes of data in various formats are being posted on these platforms. Over the past decade, the widespread adoption and proliferation of online medical forums and social platforms illustrates the variety of information being shared. Usually, when dealing with sensitive medical information, to ensure that all ethical and legal criteria are met, processing and maintaining calls for a high quality of security and privacy safeguards. We were curious if medical information on such socially available platforms goes through the same quality of privacy safeguards. Our literature study identified a significant lapse in the privacy attitude of users who post medical information online. In this paper, we report on the responses from our survey about how medical information and its privacy on social media is perceived. We look at the drivers and impediments to personal health information being shared online, focusing on privacy-related issues. We then use our findings to aid in developing a workflow for a tool that provides access to a general social media user with state-of-the-art anonymizing and privacy-protecting techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInnovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision - Proceedings of ICICV 2022
EditorsSatyabrata Roy, Deepak Sinwar, Nilanjan Dey, Thinagaran Perumal, João Manuel R.S. Tavares
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages635-646
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789819926015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event3rd International Conference on Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision, ICICV 2022 - Jaipur, India
Duration: 24-11-202225-11-2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume680 LNNS
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision, ICICV 2022
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityJaipur
Period24-11-2225-11-22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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