Towards understanding residential privacy by analyzing users' activities in Foursquare

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 25-32

  Jin, Lei ^a   Long, Xuelian ^a   Joshi, James B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Check ins; Foursquare; Location based social network systems; Residential address; Residential privacy

Indexed keywords

CHECK-INS; FOURSQUARE; HOME ADDRESS; LOCATION BASED; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PRIVACY CONCERNS; PRIVACY ISSUE; PRIVACY PROTECTION; PRIVACY RISKS; PRIVATE INFORMATION; RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS; SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEMS; SYSTEM VULNERABILITY;

ACCESS CONTROL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 84869468738     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2382416.2382428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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