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Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
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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.
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“Privacy breaches can have harmful outcomes (Barocas and Selbst, 2016) like stalking, discrimination, black-mailing or identity theft (Gross and Acquisti, 2005).”
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“Navigating the trade-offs between privacy, utility, and convenience lead users to willingly disclose large amounts of personal information while rarely adjusting privacy settings [17].”
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“this issue can be exacerbated for Replika users given their emotional attachment to the app, hence, their increased readiness to tolerate privacy invasion in exchange to having access to their AI companion [17].”
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- Authors
- Gross, R., & Acquisti, A.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- ORCID
- Acquisti, Alessandro
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2005-11-07
- Pages
- 71-80
- OpenAlex
- W2016563917
- Cited by
- 2,028
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 70 · 2019: 79 · 2018: 130 · 2017: 127 · 2016: 125 · 2015: 167 · 2014: 176 · 2013: 200 · 2012: 202
- FWCI
- 57.31
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › User Authentication and Security Systems
- Keywords
- social networking sites, privacy, information disclosure, privacy settings, privacy attacks, user behavior, university students
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