Analyzing facebook privacy settings: User expectations vs. reality

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-70

  Liu, Yabing ^a   Gummadi, Krishna P ^b   Krishnamurthy, Balachander ^c   Mislove, Alan ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

facebook; measurement; online social networks; privacy

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; MAINSTREAM MEDIA; MECHANICAL TURKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PRIVACY PROBLEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER EXPECTATIONS;

INTERNET; MEASUREMENTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 82955190606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068816.2068823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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