Beware of what you share: Inferring home location in social networks

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 571-578

  Pontes, Tatiana ^a   Magno, Gabriel ^a   Vasconcelos, Marisa ^a   Gupta, Aditi ^b   Almeida, Jussara ^a   Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam ^a   Almeida, Virgilio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INDRAPRASTHA INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Foursquare; Google+; Location; Location Inference; Privacy; Social Networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FOURSQUARE; GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GOOGLE; PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS; SIMPLE METHOD; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TWITTER; VIRAL MARKETING;

DATA MINING; DATA PRIVACY; LOCATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84873105381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDMW.2012.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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