Collateral Damage of Online Social Network Applications

Iraklis Symeonidis, Pagona Tsormpatzoudi, Bart Preneel

2016

Abstract

Third party application providers in Online Social Networks can collect personal data of users through their friends without the user’s awareness. In some cases, one or more application providers may own several applications and thus the same provider may collect an excessive amount of personal data, which creates a serious privacy risk. Previous research has developed methods to quantify privacy risks in Online Social Networks. However, most of the existing work does not focus on the issues of personal data disclosure via the user’s friends applications and application providers. The aim of this paper is to investigate the need for solutions that can compute privacy risk related to applications and application providers. In this work we perform a legal and technical analysis of the privacy threats stemming from the collection of personal data by third parties when applications are installed by the user’s friends. Particularly, we examine the case of Facebook as it is the most popular Online Social Network nowadays.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Symeonidis I., Tsormpatzoudi P. and Preneel B. (2016). Collateral Damage of Online Social Network Applications . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-167-0, pages 536-541. DOI: 10.5220/0005806705360541

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp16,
author={Iraklis Symeonidis and Pagona Tsormpatzoudi and Bart Preneel},
title={Collateral Damage of Online Social Network Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2016},
pages={536-541},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005806705360541},
isbn={978-989-758-167-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Collateral Damage of Online Social Network Applications
SN - 978-989-758-167-0
AU - Symeonidis I.
AU - Tsormpatzoudi P.
AU - Preneel B.
PY - 2016
SP - 536
EP - 541
DO - 10.5220/0005806705360541