Authors
Gayo-Avello, Daniel
Published in
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (pp. 171-180). 2011
CORE 2013 Rank: A
External links
doi:10.1145/1995966.1995991 | Preprint
Press coverage
- RPA (January 28, 2011): Radio interview (in Spanish): 6 minutes, good sound.
- La Nueva España (January 19, 2011): Twitter es un bocazas (in Spanish).
- La Voz de Asturias (January 19, 2011): Por sus ‘tweets’ los conoceréis (in Spanish).
- El Comercio (January 19, 2011): Lo que no quieras que se sepa, no lo publiques (in Spanish).
- RNE (January 18, 2011): Radio interview (in Spanish): 10 minutes, good sound.
- SER (January 18, 2011): Radio interview (in Spanish): 8 minutes, bad sound.
- RPA (January 18, 2011): Radio interview (in Spanish): 6 minutes, bad sound.
- Le Monde (January 15, 2011): Dis-moi qui tu suis sur Twitter, et je te dirai qui tu es (in French).
- L'Atelier (December 30, 2010): L'identité de l'internaute social se découvre via ses relations (in French).
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are used by millions of users worldwide. Academically speaking, there is little doubt about the usefulness of demographic studies conducted on OSNs and, hence, methods to label unknown users from small labeled samples are very useful. However, from the general public point of view, this can be a serious privacy concern. Thus, both topics are tackled in this paper: First, a new algorithm to perform user profiling in social networks is described, and its performance is reported and discussed. Secondly, the experiments --conducted on information usually considered sensitive-- reveal that by just publicizing one's contacts privacy is at risk and, thus, measures to minimize privacy leaks due to social graph data mining are outlined.