Minimizing information disclosure to third parties in social login platforms

Kontaxis, Georgios; Polychronakis, Michalis; Markatos, Evangelos P.

doi:10.1007/s10207-012-0173-6

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“…When a large number of applications and Websites receive credentials to access user profiles, this data may be subject to loss, theft or accidental leakage (Kontaxis et al, 2012), and even to web-based attacks (Bansal, Bhargavan, & Maffeis, 2012). The security of a SSO solution critically depends on several assumptions such as trust relationship amongst the involved parties and security mechanisms like the secure transport protocols used to exchange messages.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Privacy -There is concern that identity providers may collect personal and sensitive information about the user by connecting many relying parties. Social Login usage statistics (Kontaxis et al, 2012) show that more than 250 million people might not fully realize the privacy implications. Certain Websites do not offer even the minimum of their functionality unless users meet their demands for information and social interaction.…”

Section: Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Any system that is adopted for Social Login must be very easy to use otherwise users will soon get frustrated and lose interest (Sun et al, 2013, Chadwick et al, 2011 Privacy -Signing on to a relying party using the social network identity, which, in most of the cases, contains the real name, sacrifices the anonymity of the user, and therefore its privacy (Kontaxis et al, 2012). Using this information, the site can get access to the user's personal data, and reveal demographic information, get access to their friends through the social network, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Loss of anonymity -Simple operation such as connecting to a third party using an identity provider endangers the user's anonymous surfing, due to the fact that the social network user id usually contains personal information about the identity, and among others his real name (Kontaxis et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Till 2011, more than two million Websites have embraced the Social Login platform of Facebook, and 15% of the top 10,000 most popular sites adopted it (Kontaxis, Polychronakis, & Markatos, 2012). Figure 1 is an example of a login screen, in which the user can decide if using a regular account, with a specific username and password for this Website, or a Social Login through one of the social networks.…”

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confidence: 99%

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In the last few years Social Login was introduced, as a solution for the need to remember a large quantity of user id's composed of username and password to connect Websites. Social Login offers an easy connection to various Websites, providing the visitors the option to register or sign-in using any of their preferred social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and other.This research examines the factors that affect user registration through Social Login, and the readiness to use Social Login. Using a questionnaire which was responded by 101 Internet users, where 86 of them were already aware of the Social Login option, five major factors were found: Privacy, Security, Familiarity, Convenience and Ease of use. Privacy and Security were found as inhibitor factors, while Familiarity and Convenience were found as encouragers. Ease of use was not found as a predictive factor.

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