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Facebook’s Challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

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Collection Limitation Principle; Data protection; Personal data; Personal information; Personally Identifiable Information; Use limitation principle

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API:

Application Programming Interface, a programmatic means for data and/or control to be passed to and from software applications

GPS:

Global Positioning System, a space-based navigation system used also to provide geo-location information about appropriately equipped receiving devices like mobile phones

Metadata:

Literally data about data, such as GPS coordinates, time, and date, typically embedded in image files created by digital cameras

Monetization:

Informally, the creation of profit by exploiting latent value in a resource such as Personal Information

NPP:

National Privacy Principle (Privacy Act 1988)

OECD:

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

OSN:

Online Social Network

PI:

Personal Information, defined in Australian legislation as “information or an opinion (including information or an opinion...

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An earlier version of this entry was originally published by LexisNexis in the Privacy Law Bulletin (2010) 7(2) Priv LB.

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Wilson, S., Johnston, A. (2018). Facebook’s Challenge to the Collection Limitation Principle. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_198

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