Factors Affecting Information Privacy and Protection Behavior on Social Network Sites

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue IX, September 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705

Factors Affecting Information Privacy and Protection Behavior on Social Network Sites

Mohamed Khalif Ali¹, Mohamed Kasim Ali², Khalid Abdukadir Hassan^3
1Master of Science in Information Technology, Somali International University, Somalia
²Master of Science in Information and Communication Technology Management, Somali International University, Somalia
³Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Somali International University, Somalia

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate Factors affecting information privacy and protection behavior on social media, and perceived severity attack on information privacy in social media. With the major objective of the study is to know the level of information privacy protection of the users on social media, protection behavior of the users on social media, and perceived severity attack on information privacy in social media. Our study is Quantitative research and Infinite Population target sampling procedure and selecting 250 respondents students learning universities in Mogadishu-Somalia; with the use online Web survey instruments called KOBOTOOLBOX, Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics analysis. After gathering and analyzing data, the study found that the information privacy and protection behavior has answered all questions related to information privacy. Based on the findings, the researcher suggests first, every organization should give more trainings for employees on how to keep their privacy when they use social networks and how to use ICT application usage. This could reduce losing data. Second, any information available as online such as personal data has become profitable to hackers and risk can accrue any time specially when they use social network.

I. INTRODUCTION

General agreements and the truth about privacy worries of Information may importantly contrast some people are privacy sensitive, while others don’t appear to attention far about their privacy in repetition; many students are additional concerned with toward satisfying different needs than elaborate in remembering their information privacy; even those personal information who are worried about their information privacy occasionally act variously online than what they believe or say. A significant number of individual information have deficient data about information privacy and security, some of them may not be interested to frequently up-to-date their functioning system, some of them do no longer casual on the real-time monitoring points of antivirus and antispyware structures when they have them on their computers, and most of them do now not guard themselves appropriately against spyware(Bubaš et al., 2018).

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