Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Online Social Networks 2014
DOI: 10.1145/2660460.2660470
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Online privacy as a collective phenomenon

Abstract: The problem of online privacy is often reduced to individual decisions to hide or reveal personal information in online social networks (OSNs). However, with the increasing use of OSNs, it becomes more important to understand the role of the social network in disclosing personal information that a user has not revealed voluntarily: How much of our private information do our friends disclose about us, and how much of our privacy is lost simply because of online social interaction? Without strong technical effor… Show more

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“…This adds up to the analysis of friendship links [22], sexual orientation [23], and marital status [10], but still there are many more private attributes that could be subject to inclusion in a shadow profile. For example political views, religious beliefs, and use of substances are private attributes that can pose important issues if inferred and that can be subject of future research.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This adds up to the analysis of friendship links [22], sexual orientation [23], and marital status [10], but still there are many more private attributes that could be subject to inclusion in a shadow profile. For example political views, religious beliefs, and use of substances are private attributes that can pose important issues if inferred and that can be subject of future research.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example political views, religious beliefs, and use of substances are private attributes that can pose important issues if inferred and that can be subject of future research. Furthermore, we have added Twitter as another case to previous research on samples form Facebook [22] and Friendster [10,23]. Further research should try with other current social networks to avoid the Twitter model organism bias [34] and to ensure that our knowledge applies to the online society and not only a handful of social networking sites.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…In MySpace, commenting across profiles shows homophily with respect to a wide variety of demographic factors [21], including ethnicity, religion, age, and marital status. Sexual orientation shows a pattern of online homophily as well: homosexual men are more likely to be friends with homosexual men in Facebook [22], and in the now disappeared Friendster social network [23], lending the ground for social inference of sexual orientation based on digital traces. It is worth noting that, with respect to gender, online interaction exhibits a pattern of heterophily, i.e.…”
Section: Homophilymentioning
confidence: 99%