Security and Privacy Challenges for Big Data on Social Media

Abstract

In the current electronic age, users create vast and enormous data every second. As they upload photos, videos, online social conversations, etc., on social media and other platforms every day and every second, it is growing at exponential rates. Big Data is a new term given to huge datasets which is really hard to work on effectively.With the conventional data processing methods, it is difficult to process it. There are many challenges associated with BigData. One of them is the technological challenge that is dealing with the heavy data trafficwhich is being expanded daily by leaps and bounds. Capturing, storing, dissemination, analytics, and visualizations are the common problems of Big Data. Therefore, the computing infrastructure should be managed in such a way that can handle this Big Data. Another challenge is the sociological challenge where this vast data is produced by various social networking companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other mobile companies, Government agencies, etc.