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Consequences of Publishing Real Personal Information in Online Social Networks

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Risks involved in sensitive identifiable personal information disclosure in online social networks

Glossary

Personally Identifiable Information:

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:

Information about an individual user that does not identify her/him personally, such as age group and gender

Pseudonymous Profile:

A collection of information about a particular individual user that identifies the user by a randomly generated nickname

Digital Dossier:

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.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece

    Theodoros Tzouramanis, Eleni Vourou & Argyro Gkorogia

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  2. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

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Tzouramanis, T., Vourou, E., Gkorogia, A. (2017). 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/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_349-1

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