Privacy and security the politics of "real names"

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 29-31

  Boyd, Danah ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; PRIVACY AND SECURITY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84864722919     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2240236.2240247     Document Type: Article

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