Collateral Damage in Online Social Networks: computing the significance of information collection

Iraklis Symeonids; Bart Preneel

Paper 2016/038

Collateral Damage in Online Social Networks: computing the significance of information collection

Iraklis Symeonids and Bart Preneel

Abstract

Third-party apps enable a personalized experience on social networking platforms; however, they give rise to privacy interdependence issues. Apps installed by a user's friends can collect and potentially misuse her own personal data inflicting \textit{collateral damage} on the user herself while leaving her without proper means of control. In this paper, we present a study on the \textit{collateral information collection} of apps in social networks. Based on real data, we compute the proportion of exposed user attributes including the case of profiling, when several apps are offered by the same provider.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: Privacy Applications Application Providers Measurment
Contact author(s): iraklis symeonidis @ esat kuleuven be
History: 2016-01-18: last of 3 revisions; 2016-01-17: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2016/038
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/038,
      author = {Iraklis Symeonids and Bart Preneel},
      title = {Collateral Damage in Online Social Networks: computing the significance of information collection},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/038},
      year = {2016},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/038}
}