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Our Approach to Studying
Privacy in Social Networks
14.1 INTRODUCTION
Social networks as an entity unto themselves are a fairly modern concept that has taken advantage
of the benets provided by the Internet to become one of the most popular recent phenomena.
In fact, it may not be a stretch to say that the dening technology of the current decade—if not
century—is the social network. Not only has Google launched its own (beta) version of a social
network in Google+, but also mobile phones natively send data to the existing social networks,
and desktop applications come preinstalled on new computers. Even the social network leaders are ...