An Approach to Personalized Privacy Policy Recommendations on Online Social Networks

Ammar Abuelgasim, Anne Kayem

2016

Abstract

Most Online Social Networks (OSNs) implement privacy policies that enable users to protect their sensitive information against privacy violations. However, observations indicate that users find these privacy policies cumbersome and difficult to configure. Consequently, various approaches have been proposed to assist users with privacy policy configuration. These approaches are however, limited to either protecting only profile attributes, or only protecting user-generated content. This is problematic, because both profile attributes and user-generated content can contain sensitive information. Therefore, protecting one without the other, can still result in privacy violations. A further drawback of existing approaches is that most require considerable user input which is time consuming and inefficient in terms of privacy policy configuration. In order to address these problems, we propose an automated privacy policy recommender system. The system relies on the expertise of existing OSN users, in addition to the target user's privacy policy history to provide him/her with personalized privacy policy suggestions for profile attributes, as well as user-generated content. Results from our prototype implementation indicate that the proposed recommender system provides accurate privacy policy suggestions, with minimum user input.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Abuelgasim A. and Kayem A. (2016). An Approach to Personalized Privacy Policy Recommendations on Online Social Networks . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-167-0, pages 126-137. DOI: 10.5220/0005689701260137

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp16,
author={Ammar Abuelgasim and Anne Kayem},
title={An Approach to Personalized Privacy Policy Recommendations on Online Social Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2016},
pages={126-137},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005689701260137},
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 - An Approach to Personalized Privacy Policy Recommendations on Online Social Networks
SN - 978-989-758-167-0
AU - Abuelgasim A.
AU - Kayem A.
PY - 2016
SP - 126
EP - 137
DO - 10.5220/0005689701260137