Social Network Privacy

Our project involving privacy in social media focuses on studying the usability and implications of the design choices that developers make while building these systems. We look at widely used social networking platforms, especially ones that allow instant messaging, and study user behavior and attitudes on these platforms, and their socio-economic implications.

Currently we are studying cultural influences on social media platforms. We are studying WhatsApp, which is a prominent mobile messaging application in non-western countries, to understand the involvement of cultural demographics in shaping discourse over these platforms. Some of our research questions are:

  1. To what degree does age affect privacy among users from marginalized populations?
  2. What are the different privacy preferences exhibited by people of various gender?
  3. To what extent does place of origin affect privacy preferences in WhatsApp, and how are they different from our knowledge of privacy attitudes in western populations?

Publications
Conference publications (3)
  1. Jayati Dev, Sanchari Das, and L Jean Camp. Privacy Practices, Preferences, and Compunctions: WhatsApp Users in India. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2018), pages 135, 2018. Lulu. com.
    Keywords: Social Network Privacy. [bibtex-entry]


  2. Jayati Dev, Sanchari Das, and L Jean Camp. Understanding privacy concerns of whatsapp users in India: poster. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium and Bootcamp on Hot Topics in the Science of Security, pages 28, 2018. ACM.
    Keywords: Social Network Privacy. [bibtex-entry]


  3. Vaibhav Garg, Kevin Benton, and L. Jean Camp. The Privacy Paradox: A Facebook Case Study. In 2014 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Arlington VA, 2014.
    Keywords: Mental Models, Human-Centered Security, Social Network Privacy, Aging. [bibtex-entry]