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Improving Personal Privacy in Social Systems with People-Tagging

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2009

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The recent emergence of social systems has transformed the Web from an information pool to a platform for communication and social interaction. As such, the issue of managing privacy of various types of user-created content in these open environments has become more of a concern. Existing social systems often define privacy either as a private/public dichotomy or in terms of a network of friends relationship, in which all friends" are created equal and all relationships are reciprocal. We explore instead the idea of tagging people to create ego-centric groups of dynamic, non-reciprocal relationships to improve privacy management in this domain. In this paper, we introduce the principles and motivations behind people-tagging, discuss constraints that make people-tagging safe, trustable, and spam-free, describe a research implementation we have created to experiment with the concept, and provide the results of a preliminary empirical evaluation which shows the strength of the idea and indicates areas for future enhancements."

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Razavi, Maryam Najafian; Iverson, Lee (2009): Improving Personal Privacy in Social Systems with People-Tagging. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531677. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 11–20. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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