Assessing the Impact of Granular Privacy Controls on Content Sharing and Disclosure on Facebook

Huseyin Cavusoglu
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Huseyin Cavusoglu
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Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083
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Tuan Q. Phan
Tuan Q. Phan
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School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117418
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Hasan Cavusoglu
Hasan Cavusoglu
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Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2, Canada
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Edoardo M. Airoldi
Edoardo M. Airoldi
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Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Huseyin Cavusoglu

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Huseyin Cavusoglu

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Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083

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Tuan Q. Phan

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School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117418

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Hasan Cavusoglu

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Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2, Canada

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Edoardo M. Airoldi

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Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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Published Online:4 Nov 2016https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2016.0672

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