@inproceedings{5556ab462bc444178f807c0f9ac4e1c8,
title = "A closer look at third-party OSN applications: Are they leaking your personal information?",
abstract = "We examine third-party Online Social Network (OSN) applications for two major OSNs: Facebook and RenRen. These third-party applications typically gather, from the OSN, user personal information. We develop a measurement platform to study the interaction between OSN applications and fourth parties. We use this platform to study the behavior of 997 Facebook applications and 377 RenRen applications. We find that the Facebook and RenRen applications interact with hundreds of different fourth-party tracking entities. More worrisome, 22% of Facebook applications and 69% of RenRen applications provide users' personal information to one or more fourth-party tracking entities.",
author = "Abdelberi Chaabane and Yuan Ding and Ratan Dey and Kaafar, {Mohamed Ali} and Ross, {Keith W.}",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_23",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319049175",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "235--246",
editor = "Michalis Faloutsos and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic",
booktitle = "Passive and Active Measurement",
address = "United States",
note = "15th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2014 ; Conference date: 10-03-2014 Through 11-03-2014",
}