A closer look at third-party OSN applications: Are they leaking your personal information?

Abdelberi Chaabane; Yuan Ding; Ratan Dey; Mohamed Ali Kaafar; Keith W. Ross

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_23

A closer look at third-party OSN applications: Are they leaking your personal information?

Abdelberi Chaabane, Yuan Ding, Ratan Dey, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Keith W. Ross

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Abstract

We examine third-party Online Social Network (OSN) applications for two major OSNs: Facebook and RenRen. These third-party applications typically gather, from the OSN, user personal information. We develop a measurement platform to study the interaction between OSN applications and fourth parties. We use this platform to study the behavior of 997 Facebook applications and 377 RenRen applications. We find that the Facebook and RenRen applications interact with hundreds of different fourth-party tracking entities. More worrisome, 22% of Facebook applications and 69% of RenRen applications provide users' personal information to one or more fourth-party tracking entities.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Passive and Active Measurement - 15th International Conference, PAM 2014, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	235-246
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783319049175
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_23
State	Published - 2014
Event	15th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2014 - Los Angeles, CA, United States Duration: Mar 10 2014 → Mar 11 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8362 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	15th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Los Angeles, CA
Period	3/10/14 → 3/11/14

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Chaabane, A., Ding, Y., Dey, R., Kaafar, M. A., & Ross, K. W. (2014). A closer look at third-party OSN applications: Are they leaking your personal information? In Passive and Active Measurement - 15th International Conference, PAM 2014, Proceedings (pp. 235-246). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8362 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_23

A closer look at third-party OSN applications: Are they leaking your personal information? / Chaabane, Abdelberi; Ding, Yuan; Dey, Ratan et al.
Passive and Active Measurement - 15th International Conference, PAM 2014, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 235-246 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8362 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chaabane, A, Ding, Y, Dey, R, Kaafar, MA & Ross, KW 2014, A closer look at third-party OSN applications: Are they leaking your personal information? in Passive and Active Measurement - 15th International Conference, PAM 2014, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8362 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 235-246, 15th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2014, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_23

Chaabane A, Ding Y, Dey R, Kaafar MA, Ross KW. A closer look at third-party OSN applications: Are they leaking your personal information? In Passive and Active Measurement - 15th International Conference, PAM 2014, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2014. p. 235-246. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_23

Chaabane, Abdelberi ; Ding, Yuan ; Dey, Ratan et al. / A closer look at third-party OSN applications : Are they leaking your personal information?. Passive and Active Measurement - 15th International Conference, PAM 2014, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 235-246 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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