Wiki : Public Consultation for Social Networks

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European Network and information Security Agency (“ENISA”), published on a wiki an interesting document regarding security and privacy questions for Social Networks ( like FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter …) and asked for comments on this paper.

This paper is part of a series of position papers on emerging risks. The aim is to raise awareness among policy-makers and providers of the threats Social Networking (see a list of this kind of sites) poses to users and providers and what can be done to address these threats. We hope that by following our recommendations, Social Networking can become a safer environment for users and that large-scale security problems which also affect network-providers and governments can be reduced.

Now that the report has been published, we want to invite public comments to get feedback on our recommendations and to start a dialogue on Social Networking Security. To view all comments so far click on the discussion tab above.

Please leave your comments on this paper by clicking the link below or by email to …. . When posting to this email address, please mention whether you are happy for your comments to be made public (e.g. via this wiki) and what name or affiliation you would like us to give. Comments submitted on this wiki will be attributed to the username you insert.

As far as I know, that the first time an official organisation which belongs to .europa.eu domain uses such a Wiki tool (which is very notorious with Wikipedia , the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over 7 million articles in over 200 languages, and still growing.)

Wikipedia developped MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this very website, the home of MediaWiki.

ENISA, Public consultation SN uses also MediaWiki.

 

Sources:

InternetActu: La synthèse hebdomadaire de la recherche et de l'innovation
n°176, le 23 novembre 2007 : http://www.internetactu.net/?p=7419

Public consultation SN: ENISA Position Paper Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks

http://wiki.enisa.europa.eu/index.php?title=Public_Consultation_SN

Comments

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Online social networks and meeting platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Meetic are currently developing at a frantic pace. These companies have been reporting two or three-digit growth rates and most of them have launched intensive acquisition campaigns in the last two years or are now being targeted by major media groups. The sector is beginning to structure itself around some key players, which have succeeded in becoming the reference platform within their field, as the result of their innovations and positioning.