A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks
The centralized nature of conventional OSNs poses serious risks to the privacy and security of information exchanged between their members. These risks prompted several attempts to create decentralized OSNs, or DOSNs. The basic idea underlying these attempts, is that each member of a social network...
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| description | The centralized nature of conventional OSNs poses serious risks to the privacy and security of information exchanged between their members. These risks prompted several attempts to create decentralized OSNs, or DOSNs. The basic idea underlying these attempts, is that each member of a social network keeps its data under its own control, instead of surrendering it to a central host, providing access to it to other members according to its own access-control policy. Unfortunately all existing versions of DOSNs have a very serious limitation. Namely, they are unable to subject the membership of a DOSN, and the interaction between its members, to any global policy—which is essential for many social communities. Moreover, the DOSN architecture is unable to support useful capabilities such as narrowcasting and profile based search. This paper describes a novel architecture of decentralized OSNs—called DOSC, for “online social community”. DOSC adopts the decentralization idea underlying DOSNs, but it is able to subject the membership of a DOSC-community, and the interaction between its members, to a wide range of policies, including privacy-preserving narrowcasting and profile-sensitive search. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c051a1b39954bcabdbe5c3ab41305802022-12-22T02:45:58ZengEuropean Alliance for Innovation (EAI)EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing2312-86232015-12-011511910.4108/eai.17-12-2015.150806A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social NetworksZhe Wang0Naftaly H. Minsky1Rutgers University, Department of Computer ScienceRutgers University, Department of Computer Science; minsky@rutgers.eduThe centralized nature of conventional OSNs poses serious risks to the privacy and security of information exchanged between their members. These risks prompted several attempts to create decentralized OSNs, or DOSNs. The basic idea underlying these attempts, is that each member of a social network keeps its data under its own control, instead of surrendering it to a central host, providing access to it to other members according to its own access-control policy. Unfortunately all existing versions of DOSNs have a very serious limitation. Namely, they are unable to subject the membership of a DOSN, and the interaction between its members, to any global policy—which is essential for many social communities. Moreover, the DOSN architecture is unable to support useful capabilities such as narrowcasting and profile based search. This paper describes a novel architecture of decentralized OSNs—called DOSC, for “online social community”. DOSC adopts the decentralization idea underlying DOSNs, but it is able to subject the membership of a DOSC-community, and the interaction between its members, to a wide range of policies, including privacy-preserving narrowcasting and profile-sensitive search.http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.17-12-2015.150806Online social networksDecentralizationControl; PrivacySecurity |
| spellingShingle | Zhe Wang Naftaly H. Minsky A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing Online social networks Decentralization Control; Privacy Security |
| title | A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks |
| title_full | A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks |
| title_fullStr | A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks |
| title_short | A Novel, Privacy Preserving, Architecture for Online Social Networks |
| title_sort | novel privacy preserving architecture for online social networks |
| topic | Online social networks Decentralization Control; Privacy Security |
| url | http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.17-12-2015.150806 |
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