User Perception of Facebook App Data Access: A Comparison of Methods and Privacy Concerns

Jennifer Golbeck and Matthew Louis Mauriello
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Jennifer Golbeck: Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Matthew Louis Mauriello: Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Future Internet, 2016, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-14

Abstract: Users share vast amounts of personal information online, but are they fully aware of what information they are sharing and with whom? In this paper, we focused on Facebook apps and set out to understand how concerned users are about privacy and how well-informed they are about what personal data apps can access. We found that initially, subjects were generally under-informed about what data apps could access from their profiles. After viewing additional information about these permissions, subjects’ concern about privacy on Facebook increased. Subjects’ understanding of what data apps were able to access increased, although even after receiving explicit information on the topic, many subjects still did not fully understand the extent to which apps could access their data.

Keywords: social media; privacy; usability; apps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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