Our ongoing research examines privacy in online social networking sites,
aiming to improve the security and privacy management of personal
information. As a first step, we are examining and proposing improvements to
current privacy mechanisms. This addresses one aspect of the problem:
improving the ability of users to manage their privacy if they desire. In order
to do this, we are currently focusing on one particular social networking site,
Facebook. Facebook is extremely popular and has numerous information
disclosure categories and also has more extensive privacy settings than similar
sites.