Privacy Notification for Shared Content Access Changes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social network systems lack effective mechanisms for user privacy control when changing access levels of shared content, as users are not adequately notified or permitted to approve changes in access levels, potentially leading to unintended distribution of their information.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that notify and prompt referred users for permission when changing access levels of shared content, allowing users to customize notification and permission settings based on privacy settings, ensuring that changes in access levels are approved by the affected users before being implemented.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If user access to shared content is changed without notification, then the ease of operation is improved, but the user privacy control is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by notifying referred users of upcoming access changes and obtaining their permission before the changes are implemented. This advance notification mechanism allows users to maintain privacy control while still enabling operational flexibility for content sharing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by notifying referred users about access level changes and receiving their permission responses. This feedback loop ensures that privacy control requirements are met while maintaining ease of operation through automated notification and permission management.
2Reliability
If permission requests are sent to all referred users, then the user privacy control is improved, but the device complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by customizing notification and permission settings for each referred user based on their individual privacy preferences. Instead of a uniform approach, each user receives notifications and permission requests according to their specific privacy settings, thereby maintaining privacy control without unnecessarily increasing system complexity.
3Productivity
If access level changes are implemented without permission, then the productivity is improved, but the user privacy control is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary permission acquisition before implementing access level changes. By obtaining user permission in advance through automated notifications and permission requests, the system ensures privacy control is maintained while minimizing delays to productivity through efficient automated workflows.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback mechanisms to receive permission responses from referred users before implementing access changes. This feedback-based approach ensures privacy control requirements are satisfied while maintaining productivity through automated processing of permission responses and streamlined access change implementation.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method for enabling user privacy for content on a network includes receiving input from a first user instructing at least one change in user access to shared content provided by a network system. The change modifies the user access from an existing set of one or more users of the network system to a different set of one or more users of the network system. The method checks a privacy setting associated with each of one or more referred users of the network system who are referred to by the shared content. The privacy setting indicates whether the associated referred user is to be sent a notification indicating that the at least one change in user access has been instructed.