Twitter Privacy

Dilara Keküllüoglu, Walid Magdy, Kami Vaniea
Apr 27, 2021
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Twitter has a relatively simplistic privacy setting of an account being either public or protected, yet many people are still confused about how the settings work. The project looks at various kinds of privacy leakage on Twitter including birth dates, life events, and general knowledge about how the setting feature works.

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Kami Vaniea
Kami Vaniea
Associate Professor of Usable Privacy and Security

I research how people interact with cyber security and privacy technology.

Publications

Twitter has a Binary Privacy Setting, are Users Aware of How It Works?
Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can …
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From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter
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Understanding Privacy Switching Behaviour on Twitter
Changing a Twitter account’s privacy setting between public and protected changes the visibility of past tweets. By inspecting …
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Understanding Privacy Switching Behaviour on Twitter
Analysing Privacy Leakage of Life Events on Twitter
People share a wide variety of information on Twitter, including the events in their lives, without understanding the size of their …
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