Information revelation and privacy in online social networks

WPES'05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 71-80

  Gross, Ralph ^a   Acquisti, Alessandro ^b   Heinz III, H John ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information revelation; Online privacy; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

INFORMATION REVELATION; ONLINE PRIVACY; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 33749016498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1102199.1102214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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