Speaker: Na Wang

Title: Facebook Privacy and Security Issues 

Abstract

We study the privacy and security issues related to third-party apps
on Facebook. We first collect data from 1800 most popular Facebook
apps to determine what kinds of personal information those apps are
trying to obtain from users. Our results suggest that there is a large
amount of users' personal information transmitting from Facebook to
third-party app developers.  We then conduct two experiments to
identify failures in user information control implementations on
Facebook. Our results identify a few weaknesses regarding this
platform. To address some of these issues, we propose our new design
for third-party apps' authentication dialog in hoping to provide
Facebook users a more effective authentication interface and improve
their information control on Facebook.