Stalking Online: on User Privacy in Social Networks

CODASPY'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 37-48

  Yang, Yuhao ^a   Lutes, Jonathan ^a   Li, Fengjun ^a   Luo, Bo ^a   Liu, Peng ^b  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attacks; privacy; social networks; web

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; SENSITIVE DATA;

ATTACK; DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; LARGE AMOUNTS; LARGE SCALE DATA SETS; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PRIVACY; PRIVATE INFORMATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; USER PRIVACY; WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85016667581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2133601.2133607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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