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Interdisciplinary Impact Analysis of Privacy in Social Networks

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The rise of the social web has traditionally been accompanied by privacy concerns. Research on social web privacy has been conducted from various viewpoints including legal, social, and the computer sciences. In this chapter, we propose an interdisciplinary approach to capture the multidimensional concept of privacy. For this purpose, we developed a three-layered framework to systematically analyze the privacy impact of various research directions. In addition, we conducted an interdisciplinary literature analysis, highlighting areas for improvement as well dependencies between different research directions.

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    http://www.padgets.eu/

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    http://www.primelife.eu/

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    http://www.prescient-project.eu/

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    https://plus.google.com

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    http://clique.primelife.eu/

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Ludwig Fuchs (Department of Information Systems, University of Regensburg) for his helpful remarks and valuable suggestions to improve this work. This research was partly funded by the European Union under the FP7 PADGETS project (grant agreement no. 248920). The authors gratefully acknowledge this support. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, D-93040, Germany

    Michael Netter, Sebastian Herbst & Günther Pernul

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Netter, M., Herbst, S., Pernul, G. (2013). Interdisciplinary Impact Analysis of Privacy in Social Networks. In: Altshuler, Y., Elovici, Y., Cremers, A., Aharony, N., Pentland, A. (eds) Security and Privacy in Social Networks. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4139-7_2

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