k-anonymity: a model for protecting privacy
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets
SP '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
De-anonymizing Social Networks
SP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
Disclosure, ambiguity and risk reduction in real-time dating sites
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Crystallizations in the blizzard: contrasting informal emergency collaboration in Facebook groups
Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
Conducting ethical research with a game-based intervention for groups at risk of social exclusion
ICEC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Computers in Human Behavior
Studying Facebook via data extraction: the Netvizz application
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
"Un-googling" publications: the ethics and problems of anonymization
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An architecture for ethical and privacy-sensitive social network experiments
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
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In 2008, a group of researchers publicly released profile data collected from the Facebook accounts of an entire cohort of college students from a US university. While good-faith attempts were made to hide the identity of the institution and protect the privacy of the data subjects, the source of the data was quickly identified, placing the privacy of the students at risk. Using this incident as a case study, this paper articulates a set of ethical concerns that must be addressed before embarking on future research in social networking sites, including the nature of consent, properly identifying and respecting expectations of privacy on social network sites, strategies for data anonymization prior to public release, and the relative expertise of institutional review boards when confronted with research projects based on data gleaned from social media.