Defriending Facebook: A year and a half of research on Facebook privacy
cristinajcordova.com
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Is this a research paper that wins the "2010 Winner of Stanford University's Lyle and Olive Cook Prize for the best Ethics in Society honors thesis"? I am working on my master's thesis for the Utrecht University in the Netherlands with similar interest and topics like this one (ethics, privacy, audience and transparency)
But the conclusion of this research is an open door ("not only the users are responsible for what they put online, the providers e.g. Facebook should regulate as well") and skimming through her bibliography I can't see any REAL work on privacy & regulation like Agre & Rotenberg, Nissenbaum or even Lessig only a bunch of blogs and some 'duh' journal articles.
The chapter Ethical Information Privacy Practices presents most of the ethical argument. The goal of the thesis not to tell what users, Facebook, regulators should do (hence the door is open). The goal is to present a framework for determining whether an OSN is behaving ethically. I accomplish this by outlining privacy practices which should be used - notification, choice, use and security.
In terms of research, I noted early on in my thesis that it was not meant to focus on the legal ramifications (hence, no Lessig, Agre & Rotenberg). There's an entire chapter on choice architecture (Thaler and Sunstein) and work from Chellapa and Pavlou.