Loose tweets: An analysis of privacy leaks on twitter

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-11

  Mao, Huina ^a   Shuai, Xin ^a   Kapadia, Apu ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaks; Privacy; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFIERS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FACEBOOK; LEAKS; MEDICAL CONDITIONS; MICROBLOGGING; PRIVACY ISSUE; PRIVATE INFORMATION; REAL TIME; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TWITTER; UNITED KINGDOM;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTER PRIVACY;

EID: 80955157857     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046556.2046558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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