Twitter Privacy

Apr 27, 2021·
Dilara Keküllüoglu
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Walid Magdy
Kami Vaniea
Kami Vaniea
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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.

Twitter Social Media Privacy Access Control Profile Settings Online Social Media
Kami Vaniea
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Kami Vaniea (she/her)
Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) where I head the Technology Usability Lab in Privacy and Security (TULiPS). The goal of my research is to make security and privacy technologies more accessible for a wide range of users including end users, developers, and system administrators. I believe that technology should support people in their activities. My recent projects include topics like patch management, developer-centered privacy, phishing, online anonymity, smart speaker privacy, and privacy on social media.