Your Love is Public Now: Questioning the Use of Personal Information in Authentication

• Main Authors: GUPTA, Payas, GOTTIPATI, Swapna, JIANG, Jing, GAO, Debin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: social media; networking platforms; user public data; privacy; profile page information; Facebook; user real interests; inference of real interests; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1703; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2702/viewcontent/asiaccs13.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Most social networking platforms protect user's private information by limiting access to it to a small group of members, typically friends of the user, while allowing (virtually) everyone's access to the user's public data. In this paper, we exploit public data available on Facebook...