Abstract
The trend of communication is changing from mobile messages to the online social networks, for example, Face-book. The social networking applications and websites provide many of the characteristics, such as personal photo sharing. On the positive side by that many individuals form the social relationships. However, the online social networks may lead to the misuse of personal information and its disclosure. The social networks are static and assume equal values for the individuals who are directly connected. On the other hand, in real life the social relationships are dynamic and they are based on different attributes such as location, family background, neighborhood and many more. In order to be secure from the undesirable consequences due to personal information leakage, the effective mechanisms are required. In this paper, a model is proposed for the privacy in online social networks. The proposed model restricts the disclosure of personal information to the individuals. The information of one individual may be disclosed based on the relationship strength and the context. The implementation of this model on the social networks reduces the percentage of information disclosure to the less known individuals.
Highlights
Day by day increasing availability of the Internet increase number of devices that are used for communication, such as mobile phones
Our model addresses the issues of context collapse, maximum personal information disclosure, and lack of user control from sociological perspective
5) Social relationship based privacy levels: The four privacy levels are suggested on the basis of relationships strength, social context and type of the users: 1. No-Privacy: This privacy policy is very liberal in nature
Summary
Day by day increasing availability of the Internet increase number of devices that are used for communication, such as mobile phones. Unlike social networks the relationships in real life evolve with time. It raises many questions regarding the maintenance of social relationships. In OSNs there is a need for a proper mechanism to manage social relationships of individuals in a dynamic environment with diverse audiences. Current OSNs offer friend as the only possible bidirectional relationship, which lack diversity in the type of social relationships which users form in everyday life. The objective of this research to design a model for social relationships in online social networks which mimic real life relationship forming pattern. The study on audience segregation was conducted by Leenes et al [4], where the authors develop an experimental online social network prototype known as the Clique. The evaluation of privacy on social websites is in consideration of many researchers [9]-[11]
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