The existence of on-line social networks that include person specific information creates interesting opportunities for various applications ranging from marketing to community o...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Raymond Heatherl...
Anonymity is considered as a valuable property as far as everyday transactions in the Internet are concerned. Users care about their privacy and they seek for new ways to keep sec...
Elias Athanasopoulos, Mema Roussopoulos, Kostas G....
Privacy--the protection of information from unauthorized disclosure--is increasingly scarce on the Internet, and yet increasingly important as every user becomes both a content co...
Tomas Isdal, Michael Piatek, Arvind Krishnamurthy,...
Without trust, most prudent business operators and clients may decide to forgo use of the Internet and revert back to traditional methods of doing business. To counter this trend,...
Online social network sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and others have grown rapidly, with hundreds of millions of active users. A new feature on many sites is social applications...
Andrew Besmer, Heather Richter Lipford, Mohamed Sh...