@inproceedings{viswanath2012keeping,
author = {Viswanath, Bimal and Kiciman, Emre and Saroiu, Stefan},
title = {Keeping Information Safe from Social Networking Apps},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'12)},
year = {2012},
month = {August},
abstract = {The ability of third-party applications to aggregate and repurpose personal data is a fundamental privacy weakness in today’s social networking platforms. Prior work has proposed sandboxing in a hosted cloud infrastructure to prevent leakage of user information [22]. In this paper, we extend simple sandboxing to allow sharing of information among friends in a social network, and to help application developers securely aggregate user data according to differential privacy properties. Enabling these two key features requires preventing, among other subtleties, a new“Kevin Bacon” attack aimed at aggregating private data through a social network graph. We describe the significant architectural and security implications for the application framework in the
Web (JavaScript) application, backend cloud, and user data handling.},
publisher = {ACM},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/keeping-information-safe-from-social-networking-apps/},
edition = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'12)},
}