Use of Twitter by ATC - Risk Assesment

Twitter Use for Aviation’s Needs Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment
I. Introduction
ATC (Air Traffic Control) is considering the use of twitter posting feeds as a resource to gather user generated information, some of this information could also contain geolocation [7] metadata that will increase the trustworthiness of the location of the post, nevertheless this does not support the veracity of the content of the tweeter post. The four initial papers examined and several others added to explore the usability of twitter on ATC related task, had helped us to create a list of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) that will shape the way we define Risk.
We ultimately strive to answer the question: What are the security risks and/or vulnerabilities in incorporating aviation-related twitter data to the Air Traffic Control’s information resource? We will use the SWOT analysis to determine the Risk associated to use twitter data.
II. Document Review and Related Work
This paper [1][6][11] discuses the information diffusion on Twitter when emergencies happened.
They analyzed the pattern of the information cascades and identified the veracity of information during the diffusion. [3] describes the use of twitter on emergency events from 2 natural disasters in the U.S., the analysis of geolocation enable tweets and retweets, and the consideration of twitter API for command control in emergency scenarios. In [4], mainly highlights the privacy concerns of users who use apps on their smartphones. In our case, this plays an important role in appraising willingness of the user to use twitter as a resource for event information. [5][10] identify the low credibility of Twitter information, they also discusses the reliability of Twitter as a news media.[13][14][19] are some statistics about Twitter, including the total users, monthly active users, mobile users, age group,etc. [20][22] discusses the problems of spam on Twitter,
[20] focuses on

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