Managing a User's Vulnerability on a Social Networking Site

Abstract

Users often join an online social networking (OSN) site, like Facebook, to remain social, by either staying connected with friends or expanding social networks. On an OSN site, users generally share variety of personal information which is often expected to be visible to their friends, but sometimes vulnerable to unwarranted access from others.The recent study suggests that many personal attributes, including religious and political affiliations, sexual orientation, relationship status, age, and gender, are predictable using users' personal data from an OSN site. The majority of users want to remain socially active, and protect their personal data at the same time. This tension leads to a user's vulnerability, allowing privacy attacks which can cause physical and emotional distress to a user, sometimes with dire consequences. For example, stalkers can make use of personal information available on an OSN site to their personal gain. This dissertation aims to systematically study a user vulnerability against such privacy attacks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1007378

Entities

People

  • Pritam Gundecha

Organizations

  • Arizona State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Data Mining
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Information Science
  • Linear Programming
  • Literature Surveys
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Phones
  • Online Communications
  • Optimization
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks
  • Supervised Machine Learning

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