Toward a behavioral approach to privacy for online social networks

  • Authors:
  • Lerone D. Banks;S. Felix Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of California at Davis, Davis, CA;The University of California at Davis, Davis, CA

  • Venue:
  • SocInfo'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Social informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We examine the correlation between user interactions and self reported information revelation preferences for users of the popular Online Social Network (OSN), Facebook. Our primary goal is to explore the use of indicators of tie strength to inform localized, per-user privacy preferences for users and their ties within OSNs. We examine the limitations of such an approach and discuss future plans to incorporate this approach into the development of an automated system for helping users define privacy policy. As part of future work, we discuss how to define/expand policy to the entire social network. We also present additional collected data similar to other studies such as perceived tie strength and information revelation preferences for OSN users.