Best Workshop Paper Award at IEEE-conference for PrimeLife Researchers

Best Workshop Paper Award at IEEE-conference for PrimeLife Researchers

PrimeLife researcher Bibi van den Berg

presented a paper that she wrote together with Ronald Leenes (both: Tilburg

Institute for Law, Technology, and Society) at the Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing in Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA) held from August 20th to August 22nd. Their paper

won the Best Paper Award in the PASWeb 2010 Workshop on privacy aspects of the

social web and cloud computing.

Abstract of the paper:

In recent years research has shown that

most social network sites pose serious privacy and security risks for individual

users. From the existing analyses of privacy and security risks in social

network sites we deduce that one of the biggest categories of privacy risks

revolves around the notion of ‘audience segregation’, i.e. the partitioning of

different audiences and the compartmentalization of social spheres. Since

audience segregation is an important mechanism in everyday interactions between

people in the real world, van den Berg and Leenes argue that social network

sites ought to include this mechanism as well. Current social network sites

lack this mechanism. They also present Clique, a privacy-preserving social

network site that provides ‘audience segregation’ to its users as an

alternative.

The PrimeLife web team congratulates to

this success.

The paper will be published as: Van den Berg, Bibi, and Leenes, Ronald, (2010).

Audience segregation in social network sites, in: Proceedings for

SocialCom2010/PASSAT2010 (Second IEEE International Conference on Social

Computing/Second IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and

Trust), 20-22 August 2010 in Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA). IEEE, pages 1111-1117.