CyLab Seminar Series: Norman Sadeh - Can Social Networking and Privacy be Reconciled?

CyLab presents Norman Sadeh, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, as part of the weekly CyLab seminar series.

His talk points out that social networking and privacy have often been depicted as irreconcilable. People holding this view have declared that the success of sites such as Facebook marks the end of online privacy: "people have voted with their feet and shown they didn't care". In this presentation, he examines data collected through a series of pilots designed to better understand people's privacy preferences in the context of mobile social networking, with a particular focus on location sharing. The results strongly suggest that, not only do people care about their privacy, but that mobile social networking applications that have failed to give users adequate privacy settings have miserably failed.

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