With over half a billion users, online social networks (OSNs) are becoming part of everyday life. However, the large amount of information shared on these networks has become a privacy concern. The privacy settings for OSNs can be difficult to understand, especially for novice users. This project investigates the privacy settings for a popular OSN, Facebook. Part of the project involves development of Privacy Helper, an application that can be run from inside Facebook and that helps users understand the intricacies of their privacy settings. Statistics gathered from use of this application are then analyzed to investigate the relationship between a user's desired settings and current settings.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Flaherty, Tyler Howell

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043009-081140

Advisor

• Wills, Craig E.
• Dougherty, Daniel J.

Year

• 2009

Date created

• 2009-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright