Title :
Privacy Preservation in Decentralized Online Social Networks
Author :
Schwittmann, Lorenz ; Wander, Matthaus ; Boelmann, Christopher ; Weis, Torben
Abstract :
The housing of personal data on large online social networks arouses concerns from privacy advocates and leery users. Researchers have proposed decentralized architectures to create online social networks with technically imposed privacy preservation. This survey of several approaches discusses their privacy benefits, architecture, and suitability for mobile devices.
Keywords :
data privacy; mobile computing; security of data; social networking (online); software architecture; OSN; decentralized architecture; mobile device; online social network; privacy preservation; Access control; Computer architecture; Encryption; Internet; Online services; Privacy; Social factors; Social network services; online social networks; privacy; social graph obfuscation; survey;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2013.131
