Facebook and privacy: it's complicated

By Maritza L. Johnson, Serge Egelman, Steven M. Bellovin. 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Enhancing Transparency and Control When Drawing Data-Driven Inferences About Individuals (2016, background): “A study surveyed Facebook users and found that they did not feel that they had the appropriate tools to mitigate their privacy concerns when it comes to social network data.(16) In an online experiment utilizing a Facebook social recommender system for music that gives users control over recommendat”
Unspeaking on Facebook? Testing network effects on self-censorship of political expressions in social network sites (2015, unknown): “(2) Relationship-specific FI: We modified Neuwirth et al.’s (2007) FI question wording and applied it to nine relationship categories suggested by Johnson et al. (2012) which include ‘immediate family’, ‘extended family’, ‘coworker’, ‘high school/college friends’, ‘best friend’ ‘a friend of a…”
Counteracting the Negative Effect of Form Auto-completion on the Privacy Calculus (2013, result): “In contrast, other researchers show that people’s privacy decisions are not always so rational (Acquisti and Grossklags 2005, 2008), and that computer users often avoid the hassle of exploiting the control given to them (Compañó and Lusoli 2010).”
Toward Reproducibility in Online Social Network Research (2018, background): “’s description of their recruitment material and consent procedures [21], and Ali et al.”
Silent Listeners: The Evolution of Privacy and Disclosure on Facebook (2013, background): “In addition to misconceptions about the access third-party apps gain to profile data, the literature has also documented users’ errors in estimating how many other Facebook members can have access to their profile data (see [2] and, more recently, [32] and [6]).”