German social network users do value privacy and they are not willing to trade their privacy for better targeted ads. We also …

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 …

other offline or online forum. But even though Facebook users have privacy options to control who sees what content, this … expectation of privacy from government surveillance of virtually all of their online activity. Based on Facebook’s own … interpretations of federal privacy laws, a warrant is only necessary to compel disclosure of inbox and outbox messages less than 181 …

The problems created by the rise of social networks for user privacy have become well known throughout the world since … norms all currently offer some but insufficient solutions to the problems of online social network privacy when faced with … tbest privacy protection is likely to arise from serious regulation of code in the shape of the defaults for disclosure on …

The explosive growth of online social networking necessitates a better understanding of privacy in this context to … information privacy, we extend the extant conceptualization of information privacy by developing a multidimensional privacy … construct contextualized to online social networking platforms. We term this new construct online social networking privacy …

This article is a report on the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) 2nd International Conference: Privacy in the … countries, and was hosted by the Centre for Business Information Ethics at Meiji University, Tokyo. APSN is an association of … over 50 privacy researchers, primarily from Asia-Pacific countries. Privacy issues in social networks (SNS) were a main …

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 …