Review paper
Analyzing facebook privacy settings
Published: Nov 2, 2011
Abstract
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;...
Figures & Tables

Figure 1: Screenshot of our survey. Each user was asked about 10 different uploa...

Figure 2: Cumulative distribution of the fraction of each user’s content that re...

Figure 3: (a) Cumulative distribution of the sizes of observed friend lists and ...

Table 1: Existing privacy settings for all content items. The different content ...

Table 2: Comparison of the actual privacy settings and desired privacy settings ...

Table 3: Comparison of the actual privacy settings and desired privacy settings ...
Paper Details
Title
Analyzing facebook privacy settings
Published Date
Nov 2, 2011
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