New Approach to Quantification of Privacy on Social Network Sites

• Published in: 2010 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications pp. 556 - 564
• Main Authors: Tran Hong Ngoc, Echizen, Isao, Komei, Kamiyama, Yoshiura, Hiroshi
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.01.2010
• Subjects: Blogs; Data privacy; Entropy; Joints; Measurement; Privacy; privacy metric; privacy on SNS; privacy quantification; Probability distribution; SNS

Users may unintentionally reveal private information to the world on their blogs on social network sites (SNSs). Information hunters can exploit such disclosed sensitive information for the purpose of advertising, marketing, spamming, etc. We present a new metric to quantify privacy, based on probab...