Paper 2016/038
Collateral Damage in Online Social Networks: computing the significance of information collection
Iraklis Symeonids and Bart Preneel
Abstract
Third-party apps enable a personalized experience on social networking platforms; however, they give rise to privacy interdependence issues. Apps installed by a user's friends can collect and potentially misuse her own personal data inflicting \textit{collateral damage} on the user herself while leaving her without proper means of control. In this paper, we present a study on the \textit{collateral information collection} of apps in social networks. Based on real data, we compute the proportion of exposed user attributes including the case of profiling, when several apps are offered by the same provider.
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PDF
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- PrivacyApplicationsApplication ProvidersMeasurment
- Contact author(s)
- iraklis symeonidis @ esat kuleuven be
- History
- 2016-01-18: last of 3 revisions
- 2016-01-17: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2016/038
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/038,
author = {Iraklis Symeonids and Bart Preneel},
title = {Collateral Damage in Online Social Networks: computing the significance of information collection},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/038},
year = {2016},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/038}
}
