Privacy leakage in mobile online social networks

  • Authors:
  • Balachander Krishnamurthy;Craig E. Wills

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ;Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

  • Venue:
  • WOSN'10 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Online social networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Mobile Online Social Networks (mOSNs) have recently grown in popularity. With the ubiquitous use of mobile devices and a rapid shift of technology and access to OSNs, it is important to examine the impact of mobile OSNs from a privacy standpoint. We present a taxonomy of ways to study privacy leakage and report on the current status of known leakages. We find that all mOSNs in our study exhibit some leakage of private information to third parties. Novel concerns include combination of new features unique to mobile access with the leakage in OSNs that we had examined earlier.