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Information revelation and privacy in online social networks

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Alessandro AcquistiAuthors Info & Claims

WPES '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society

Pages 71 - 80

https://doi.org/10.1145/1102199.1102214

Published: 07 November 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Participation in social networking sites has dramatically increased in recent years. Services such as Friendster, Tribe, or the Facebook allow millions of individuals to create online profiles and share personal information with vast networks of friends - and, often, unknown numbers of strangers. In this paper we study patterns of information revelation in online social networks and their privacy implications. We analyze the online behavior of more than 4,000 Carnegie Mellon University students who have joined a popular social networking site catered to colleges. We evaluate the amount of information they disclose and study their usage of the site's privacy settings. We highlight potential attacks on various aspects of their privacy, and we show that only a minimal percentage of users changes the highly permeable privacy preferences.

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Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
1. Security and privacy
  1. Human and societal aspects of security and privacy
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Privacy policies

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WPES '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society

November 2005

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ISBN:1595932283

DOI:10.1145/1102199

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Vijay Atluri
Rutgers University
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Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Roger Dingledine
The Free Haven Project

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