Who's your best friend? Targeted privacy attacks in location-sharing social networks

UbiComp'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 177-186

  Kostakos, Vassilis ^a   Venkatanathan, Jayant ^a   Reynolds, Bernardo ^a   Sadeh, Norman ^b   Toch, Eran ^b   Shaikh, Siraj A ^c   Jones, Simon ^d  

^a MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^c Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

location sharing; privacy; privacy attacks

Indexed keywords

PRIVACY ATTACKS; PRIVACY POLICIES; REAL-TIME LOCATION; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 80054056884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2030112.2030138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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