result suggests that privacy mechanisms affect partner selection and the consequent structure of the network: when … privacy costs of revealing personal information are compensated by more productive links. …

What facts are public and what facts are private? It is the fundamental, first-principles question in privacy law, and … a necessary element in the two most important privacy torts, public disclosure of private facts and intrusion upon … reasonable expectation of privacy in a particular fact that he has shared with one or more persons. Some courts hold that when an …

online social networks and their privacy implications. We analyze the online behavior of more than 4,000 Carnegie Mellon … they disclose and study their usage of the site's privacy settings. We highlight potential attacks on various aspects of … their privacy, and we show that only a minimal percentage of users changes the highly permeable privacy preferences …