Study Raises New Privacy Concerns About Facebook
4 February 2008The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about Adrienne Felt’s Facebook privacy study: Study Raises New Privacy Concerns About Facebook, 4 February, 2008.
Another report from WINA 1070 AM:
A UVa student is examining a popular social networking site
A student at the UVa Engineering School is investigating Facebook’s information vulnerabilities. Fourth-year student Adrienne Felt is in charge of a research project dealing with privacy issues having to do with applications on the popular social networking site. Facebook allows independently developed applications to appear in user profiles; when these applications run, the developer is given access to the user’s available information, causing a potential security breach. Felt’s goal is to make users more aware of how their information can be unknowingly accessed.