SONET: A SOcial NETwork Model for Privacy Monitoring and Ranking

Many concerns have been raised regarding the privacy issues in social media. The risks, as well as the security and privacy issues of social media in business, public policy, and legislation need to be evaluated and studied. However, there is lack of effective and practical way to quantify, measure, and evaluate privacy. In this paper, we propose a social network model, SONET, for privacy monitoring and ranking. The model provides a novel, effective, and practical way to quantify, measure, and evaluate privacy. Further, the proposed model is also flexible and built on real data from social media. The proposed privacy risk indicator, PIDX, can be calculated in real time and the value can be used for privacy monitoring and risk control.