Research

Our privacy plugin helps Facebook users manage the access to their personal profile and its elements by colouring the objects according to their visibility. This software is still work in process, comments are highly welcome. Please address suggestions or hints to Thomas Paul.

The latest Version of the Firefox - Plugin can always been found at: http://www.daniel-puscher.de/fpw/

Scientific publications, on which fpw is based:

• Paul, Puscher, Strufe: Improving the usability of Privacy Settings in Facebook (arxiv.org)
• Paul, Stopczynski, Puscher, Volkamer, Strufe: C4PS: Colors for Privacy Settings (WWW '12, Poster)
• Paul, Stopczynski, Puscher, Volkamer, Strufe: Helping Facebookers Manage their Privacy Settings (SocInfo '12)

www.handelsblatt.com/technologie/it-tk/it-internet/facebook-privacy-watcher-im-einsatz-gegen-den-daten-kraken/7388782.html

Furthermore, the following articles report about the plugin:

allfacebook.de/features/facebook-privacy-watcher-die-privatsphare-ampel-fur-den-browser/

computer.t-online.de/facebook-privatsphaere-im-griff-mit-facebook-privacy-watcher/id_60369244/index

www.netzwelt.de/news/94099-facebook-privacy-watcher-firefox-add-on-mehr-privatsphaere.html

www.ffh.de/news-service/magazin/toController/Topic/toAction/show/toTopic/die-facebook-ampel-fuer-sichere-postings.html

http://www.bild.de/digital/internet/facebook/facebook-privacy-watcher-privatsphaere-26878734.bild.html

http://www.you-fm.de/index.jsp?rubrik=76843&key=standard_document_46431849

https://netzpolitik.org/2012/die-facebook-privacy-einstellungen-beherrschen-per-firefox-extension/

www.echo-online.de/region/darmstadt/TU-entwickelt-Ampel-fuer-Facebook;art1231,3317833

www.fr-online.de/darmstadt/datenschutz-ampel-fuer-facebook,1472858,20607618.html