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A Closer Look at Third-Party OSN Applications: Are They Leaking Your Personal Information?

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PAM 2014: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement - Volume 8362

Pages 235 - 246

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_23

Published: 10 March 2014 Publication History

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We examine third-party Online Social Network (OSN) applications for two major OSNs: Facebook and RenRen. These third-party applications typically gather, from the OSN, user personal information. We develop a measurement platform to study the interaction between OSN applications and fourth parties. We use this platform to study the behavior of 997 Facebook applications and 377 RenRen applications. We find that the Facebook and RenRen applications interact with hundreds of different fourth-party tracking entities. More worrisome, 22% of Facebook applications and 69% of RenRen applications provide users' personal information to one or more fourth-party tracking entities.

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PAM 2014: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement - Volume 8362

March 2014

280 pages

ISBN:9783319049175

Editors:
Michalis Faloutsos
Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
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Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
EECS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

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Zuo WRaman AMondragÓN RTyson G(2023)A First Look at User-Controlled Moderation on Web3 Social Media: The Case of Memo.cashProceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Open Challenges in Online Social Networks10.1145/3599696.3612901(29-37)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2023
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Zuo WRaman AMondragón RTyson G(2023)Set in Stone: Analysis of an Immutable Web3 Social Media PlatformProceedings of the ACM Web Conference 202310.1145/3543507.3583510(1865-1874)Online publication date: 30-Apr-2023
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Robinson NBonneau JSala AGoel AGummadi K(2014)Cognitive disconnectProceedings of the second ACM conference on Online social networks10.1145/2660460.2660471(247-258)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2660460.2660471

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