Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences

Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act'

Consolidated Review of Profiling High-School Students with Facebook: How Online Privacy Laws Can Actually Increase Minors’ Risk

While the paper implicates this problem to unintended consequences of COPPA, I would lay more of the blame on Facebook for not properly validating members' ages. While this perhaps would not be in Facebook's financial interests, it seems to be that these results demonstrate that by not doing this, they are in fact not meeting the spirit of the COPPA law. To make an analogy, suppose a law gave a...

Sharing Health Information on Facebook: Practices, Preferences, and Risk Perceptions of North American Users

Motivated by the benefits, people have used a variety of webbased services to share health information (HI) online. Among these services, Facebook, which enjoys the largest population of active subscribers, has become a common place for sharing various types of HI. At the same time, Facebook was shown to be vulnerable to various attacks, resulting in unintended information disclosure, privacy i...

Factors mediating disclosure in social network sites

In this paper, we explore how privacy settings and privacy policy consumption (reading the privacy policy) affect the relationship between privacy attitudes and disclosure behaviors. We present results from a survey completed by 122 users of Facebook regarding their information disclosure practices and their attitudes about privacy. Based on our data, we develop and evaluate a model for underst...

Privacy as information access and illusory control: The case of the Facebook News Feed privacy outcry

Increasingly, millions of people, especially youth, post personal information in online social networks (OSNs). In September 2006, one of the most popular sites—Facebook.com—introduced the features of News Feed and Mini Feed, revealing no more information than before, but resulting in immediate criticism from users. To investigate the privacy controversy, we conducted a survey among 172 current...