Privacy and Security in Online Social Media - Unit 13 - Research Papers Part - II
Privacy and Security in Online Social Media - Unit 13 - Research Papers Part - II
Privacy and Security in Online Social Media - Unit 13 - Research Papers Part - II
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About NPTEL () Your last recorded submission was on 2024-04-03, 22:40 IST Due date: 2024-04-03, 23:59 IST.
Please go through the below paper: “Beware of What You Share Inferring Home Location in Social Networks”
How does an at https://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/precog.iiit.ac.in/Publications_files/TP_GM_MV_AG_JA_PK_VA_Pinsoda_2012
NPTEL online (https://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/precog.iiit.ac.in/Publications_files/TP_GM_MV_AG_JA_PK_VA_Pinsoda_2012.pdf) and
course work? () answer the following questions from [Q1-Q5].
Prerequisite 1) Which of the following social networks was NOT mentioned in the paper as a source for the dataset ? 1 point
Assignment ()
Twitter
Welcome to Foursquare
PSOSM class () Facebook
Google Plus
Introduction to
Social Media API 2) What is the main focus of the study mentioned in the paper ? 1 point
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Inference of Social Security Number from Home Location in Social Networks
Misinformation Inference of Home Location in Social Networks
and Privacy ()
Impact of Nudges on Location Sharing in Social Networks
Identity
resolution and
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social media () 4) Look at the Figure below (Figure 1) and answer the following question : 1 point
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X Research
papers: Location
based Privacy ()
Research Papers
Part - II ()
Week 10 Feedback
Form : Privacy and
Security in Online
Social Media (unit?
unit=68&lesson=72
) The distance between inferred and declared user home cities on Twitter is less than 40 km for ____ of users.
Quiz: Week 10 : 20 %
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40 %
name=157) 80 %
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Week 11:
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Please go through the following paper, “On the dynamics of username change behavior on Twitter”
Lecture https://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/precog.iiit.ac.in/Publications_files/04-Jain.pdf
materials/Notes (https://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/precog.iiit.ac.in/Publications_files/04-Jain.pdf) and answer the following questions from [Q6-
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6) From the following figure (Figure 3), what is the correct inference? 1 point
Problem
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80% of users rarely change usernames and 20% change user names frequently.
20% of users frequently change usernames and 80% change usernames rarely.
The percentage of users attributed to the change of usernames follows a Pareto Distribution.
The percentage of users attributed to the change of usernames does not follow a Pareto Distribution.
7) Which of the following method(s) were used in the paper for measuring the similarity between two 1 point
consecutive usernames ?
Cosine Similarity
Longest Common Subsequence
Longest Common Substring
All of the Above
8) Observe the figure below (Figure 4) about the additions or deletions of characters to usernames of 1 point
several users on Twitter while changing their usernames and select the correct option(s) :
Most users added or deleted characters either from the start, middle or end of their username.
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10) Refer to the figure below (Figure 5) about a partner account promoting another in a tweet and answer 1 point
the following question:
Which of the following phenomena is shown in the above figure as discussed in the paper ?
Username Squatting
Obscured Username Promotion
Adjust to Events
Space Gain
Please go through the following paper, “Boston Marathon Analyzing Fake Content on Twitter”
https://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/precog.iiit.ac.in/Publications_files/ecrs2013_ag_hl_pk.pdf
(https://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/precog.iiit.ac.in/Publications_files/ecrs2013_ag_hl_pk.pdf )and answer the following
questions from [Q11-Q15]
11) Which of the following statements is true about Boston blasts? 1 point
Twin blasts occurred during the Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2013 at 18:50 GMT
Twin blasts occurred during the Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2009 at 18:50 GMT
Four people were killed and 264 were injured in the incident
All of the above
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The figure shows the temporal distribution of tweets after the Boston blast
The figure shows the spatial distribution of tweets after the Boston blast
Both (a) and (b)
None of the above
Refer to the table below (Table 1) about some parameters of Aditya’s account and answer the following questions
[Q13-15]
263.15
10.96
1.096
None of the above
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15) “The credibility of a verified user according to the method in the paper will be considered as 1”. This 1 point
statement is:
True
False
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