World Wide Web

Philosophy

Privacy software

Face (sociological concept)

Computer security

Privacy by Design

Computer science

Privacy protection

Social network (sociolinguistics)

Internet privacy

Information privacy

Mainstream

Social media

Sociology

Personally identifiable information

Theology

Social science

The sharing of personal data has emerged as a popular activity over online social networking sites like Facebook. As a result, the issue of online social network privacy has received significant attention in both the research literature and the mainstream media. Our overarching goal is to improve defaults and provide better tools for managing privacy, but we are limited by the fact that the full extent of the privacy problem remains unknown; there is little quantification of the incidence of incorrect privacy settings or the difficulty users face when managing their privacy.

Analyzing facebook privacy settings