Privacy-Preserving Friendship Relations for Mobile Social Networking
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This position paper explores the dual nature of friendship relations as an enabler but also as a pitfall for privacy in social networks. The privacy-deteriorating consequences of unilateral friendship disclosure are quantified for an existing medium-sized social network site. A lightweight implementation of hidden friendship using existing standards is proposed and assessed for practicable and secure deployment in a mobile networking scenario.
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