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Facebook, MySpace Privacy Vulnerabilities |
Keywords:
Social Networks, FaceBook, MySpace
Citation:
Abstract
Participation in social networking sites has dramatically increased
in recent years. Services such as Friendster, Tribe,
or the Facebook allow millions of individuals to create online
profiles and share personal information with vast networks
of friends - and, often, unknown numbers of strangers. In
this paper we study patterns of information revelation in
online social networks and their privacy implications. We
analyze the online behavior of more than 4,000 Carnegie
Mellon University students who have joined a popular social
networking site catered to colleges. We evaluate the
amount of information they disclose and study their usage
of the site’s privacy settings. We highlight potential attacks
on various aspects of their privacy, and we show that only
a minimal percentage of users changes the highly permeable
privacy preferences.
Gross, R. and Acquisti, A.
Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks.
Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2005
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