An integrated framework for enhancing privacy in online social networks
Ashutosh Saxena, Ina Jain, M. Choudary Gorantla · 2013
In recent times online social networks (OSN) have become one of the most widely used Internet applications with a very large number of users. In an OSN, the users exchange information via text, pictures and videos with their peers/friends for their personal or business interests. Since the information that flows across an OSN is generally of personal in nature, it is important that the users get assurance regarding their information is kept private to a level that they desire. In this paper, we analyze the potential problems with centralized OSNs and Distributed OSNs and then suggest an integrated framework which combines the advantages of these two frameworks and at the same time eliminates their drawbacks. The proposal is to have a framework with the familiar interface and applications that of the centralized OSNs and access control over the personal data like that of Distributed OSN.