TY - GEN
T1 - Evolution of publicly disclosed information in Facebook profiles
AU - Farahbakhsh, Reza
AU - Mohammadi, Samin
AU - Han, Xiao
AU - Cuevas, Angel
AU - Crespi, Noel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/9/7
Y1 - 2017/9/7
N2 - With more than one billion subscribers, Facebook contains a huge amount of personal and sensitive information from its users. This personal information may be accessible to external entities/users based on users' privacy configuration and/or due to external changes such as releasing of new policies or configuration by Facebook. This study aims to understand both how the amount of available public information is evolving on the largest social network, Facebook, and the effect of the new Facebook profile layout appearance, 'Timeline', on this evolution? To this end, we analyzed the evolution of disclosed information on 73K Facebook users' profiles for a period of 5 months. We study both the overall evolution as well as user-based evolution, and the results show how the amount of available information changed on the 5 months period ofour study.
AB - With more than one billion subscribers, Facebook contains a huge amount of personal and sensitive information from its users. This personal information may be accessible to external entities/users based on users' privacy configuration and/or due to external changes such as releasing of new policies or configuration by Facebook. This study aims to understand both how the amount of available public information is evolving on the largest social network, Facebook, and the effect of the new Facebook profile layout appearance, 'Timeline', on this evolution? To this end, we analyzed the evolution of disclosed information on 73K Facebook users' profiles for a period of 5 months. We study both the overall evolution as well as user-based evolution, and the results show how the amount of available information changed on the 5 months period ofour study.
KW - Facebook
KW - Information Disclosure
KW - Online Social Networks
KW - Privacy Evolution
U2 - 10.1109/Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS.2017.214
DO - 10.1109/Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS.2017.214
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85032333335
T3 - Proceedings - 16th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS 2017
SP - 9
EP - 16
BT - Proceedings - 16th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS 2017
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering and 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, Trustcom/BigDataSE/ICESS 2017
Y2 - 1 August 2017 through 4 August 2017
ER -