Privacy in social networks: A comparative study

Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment, 2009
Issue Date:
2009-12-01
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Social networks provide unprecedented opportunity for individuals and organizations to share information. At the same time they present significant challenges to privacy that left unaddressed will stifle information sharing and innovation. In this paper we analyse four different prototypical existing social networks, and identify key problems that arise for a privacy-by-design approach to the development of a new breed of social networks.
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