Glossary
- Personally Identifiable Information:
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Information that can uniquely identify an individual user, such as name, social security number, home address, e-mail address, or credit card information
- Anonymous Information:
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Information about an individual user that does not identify her/him personally, such as age group and gender
- Pseudonymous Profile:
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A collection of information about a particular individual user that identifies the user by a randomly generated nickname
- Digital Dossier:
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An electronic file containing detailed information on the same subject, for example, about a particular individual or topic. In the case of an Internet user, her/his digital dossier records and aggregates every possible item of information published online about her/him
Introduction
By 2004 the Internet was based on Web 1.0 technology, which included static pages meaning the simple movement of...
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Tzouramanis, T., Vourou, E., Gkorogia, A. (2018). Consequences of Publishing Real Personal Information in Online Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_349
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