Privacy dynamics: learning privacy norms for social software
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Conference Paper
Abstract
Privacy violations in online social networks (OSNs) often arise as a result of users sharing information with unintended audiences. One reason for this is that, although OSN capabilities for creating and managing social groups can make it easier to be selective about recipients of a given post, they do not provide enough guidance to the users to make informed sharing decisions. In this paper we present Privacy Dynamics, an adaptive architecture that learns privacy norms for different audience groups based on users' sharing behaviours. Our architecture is underpinned by a formal model inspired by social identity theory, a social psychology framework for analysing group processes and intergroup relations. Our formal model comprises two main concepts, the group membership as a Social Identity (SI) map and privacy norms as a set of conflict rules. In our approach a privacy norm is specified in terms of the information objects that should be prevented from flowing between two conflicting social identity groups. We implement our formal model by using inductive logic programming (ILP), which automatically learns privacy norms. We evaluate the performance of our learning approach using synthesised data representing the sharing behaviour of social network users.
Date Issued
2016-05-14
Date Acceptance
2016-02-18
Citation
Proceedings - 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, SEAMS 2016, 2016, pp.47-56
ISBN
9781450341875
Publisher
ACM
Start Page
47
End Page
56
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings - 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, SEAMS 2016
Copyright Statement
© 2016 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (2016), http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2897053.2897063
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SEAMS 2016
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2016-05-14
Finish Date
2016-05-22
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Austin, TX