Increasing Patients Privacy While Using Search Engines and Social Media Websites

Ahmad Sleiman Ahmad, Obadah Hammoud, Mothanna Alkubeily

Abstract: Search engines and social media websites offer us great services, but they collect their users' information, which could be considered as a privacy violation. It requires some serious work to increase user's privacy level while using search engines services or surfing social media websites, and especially for patients, whom records are considered confident, and these websites are capable to create a medical profile for each of them. Our contribution in this paper is to propose a new method that enables us to increase users' privacy level while using existing search engines and social media websites without replacing them, in a way that disables those websites from accessing users' information.

Keywords: Search Engines, Social Media, Google, Facebook, Privacy, Patients, Personal Data