Rosita Bitinaitė, Arūnas Liuiza
Availability of Personal Information on the Internet
Problem
Methodology
- Visitor is invited to take part in a prize draw;
- Participant scans QR code;
- Participant signs up with Facebook account;
- Participant is asked to come back in 20 minutes;
- User data is read via Facebook API;
- Student team adds additional data via Google searches;
- Visitor is presented with a report and a prize.
„Studijos 2018“ Kaunas/Vilnius
Data points
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First and last name
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E-mail address,
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Phone number,
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Date of birth,
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Place of residence (city, address),
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Family members,
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Relationship status,
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School / Employer,
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Name of a pet,
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Mother’s maiden name.
The RESULTS
688 visitors
405 participants
Information points
Number of Points Found
Prizes
Conclusions
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90 percent of participants share more that 3 pieces of information available online publicly or with minimal permissions.
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58.9 percent of approached visitors were willing to give access to it for a chance of a fairly cheap and simple reward.
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Least sensitive data – name, email, city – were shared the most (more than 70 percent of the cases).
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Most sensitive data, like popular security questions (pet’s name, mother’s maiden name) were among the best guarded, but students still managed to find those in at least 7 cases.
Thanks! Questions?
klausk@aruno.lt
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Availability of Personal Information on the Internet
By Arūnas Liuiza
Availability of Personal Information on the Internet
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