Privacy-Enhanced Sharing of Personal Content on The Web

by Mannan, Mohammad and van Oorschot, Paul

This article introduces a technique for sharing personal data based on the contact lists of instant messaging (IM) networks. Besides this idea the paper has the following intersting points:

• the authors note that storing relationship information and user data on the same site may undermine privacy!
• they list a number of consequences of lost privacy including: (a) denying / loosing jobs, (b) suspending of students, (c) tracking of government agencies.
• removing content that may be deemed offensive or was posted in an emotional response is tricky (backups, facebook does not let you remove your birthday, etc.).