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Collective aspects of privacy in the Twitter social network

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0130-3

Published Online: 2018-01-18

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Garcia, David http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2820-9151
Goel, Mansi

Agrawal, Amod Kant

Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

ETH Foundation through the Risk Center

Vienna Science and Technology Fund (VRG16-005)
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Article History

Received: 25 August 2017

Accepted: 4 January 2018

First Online: 18 January 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: All data analyzed in this study was publicly available in Twitter. Only explicitly public information was used as ground truth (biographical text, locations) and no private information of any user was predicted as part of this research. This observational study was based only on public archival data and carried no intervention and no interaction with any individual. Thus, this research carries minimum risk and is exempt of the need of consent or of an institutional review.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

: Not applicable.