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Current social networking technology provides users with little of the privacy that they expect and are promised. While some individuals may truly wish to be “open books,” violating most users’ privacy expectations leads to serious consequences for both the users and their network. We propose that, in order for users to truly be in control of their personal information, we need to respect and learn from the social protocols that have been built up over the millennia.
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Anderson, J., Stajano, F. (2013). Not That Kind of Friend. In: Christianson, B., Malcolm, J.A., Matyáš, V., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols XVII. Security Protocols 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7028. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36213-2_37
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