Understanding privacy settings in facebook with an audience view

  • Authors:
  • Heather Richter Lipford;Andrew Besmer;Jason Watson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC;Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC;Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC

  • Venue:
  • UPSEC'08 Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Usability, Psychology, and Security
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Users of online social networking communities are disclosing large amounts of personal information, putting themselves at a variety of risks. Our ongoing research investigates mechanisms for socially appropriate privacy management in online social networking communities. As a first step, we are examining the role of interface usability in current privacy settings. In this paper we report on our first iterative prototype, where presenting an audience-oriented view of profile information significantly improved the understanding of privacy settings.