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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Important Study (Columbia U.): Failure of Online
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Important Study (Columbia U.): Failure of Online Social Network
Privacy Settings
http://j.mp/ejLN9P (Columbia [PDF])
Our results indicate a serious mismatch: every one of the 65
participants in our study confirmed that at least one of the identified
violations was in fact a sharing violation. In other words, OSN users'
privacy settings are incorrect. Furthermore, a majority of users
cannot or will not fix such errors. We conclude that the current
approach to privacy settings is fundamentally flawed and cannot be fixed;
a fundamentally different approach is needed.
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