Shared Images and Camera Fingerprinting May Lead to Privacy Issues

Social networks have become an indispensable part of everyday life by providing users with different types of interaction. However, sharing different types of data, such as text, image, video and etc., on social networks, gives rise to user privacy concerns and risks, while the user is not aware of that. In this chapter, we show how the images shared by users can be applied to fingerprint the acquisition devices and link user profiles on social networks