Analysis of social networking privacy policies

As the use of social networks becomes more widespread and commonplace, users are beginning to question how their privacy is protected by social networks. In this paper, we review a privacy taxonomy for data storage polices and models and extend it to support social networking. We then apply the extended taxonomy to the privacy policies of six commonly used social networks, and present our findings with regards to how the published privacy policies of these social networks protect the privacy of users in reality.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: EDBTW
• Authors: Leanne Wu, Maryam Majedi, Kambiz Ghazinour, Ken Barker
• Keywords: EDBTW 2010, Privacy, Privacy Policies, Social Networks, Software Engineering