Privacy for Multiparty Access in Social Networking Sites: A Survey

摘要

Social Networking Sites have become the means of the communication and have experienced growth in the recent years. As these sites offer services for free of costs are attracting the people all around the world. Some technologies are emerging in the field of Internet but still the users are facing the security leakages by unauthorized users. Many of the Social Sites are managed by the Third Party Domains which keep track of all the user information along with the access details. Most Online Social Networking (OSN) Sites provide an "accept all or nothing" mechanism for managing permission from Third Party Access (TPA) to access user's private data [3]. The Social Media sites do not provide any mechanism for privacy on the shared data among the multiple users. Many users share their personal information without knowing about the cyber thefts and risks associated with it. From the survey it has been found that the teenagers are least concerned about the navigating privacy. Privacy associated with the Social media is the very crucial thing. Different methods are discussed regarding sharing of the personal information and leakage of this information through different mediums. Different models are also proposed in this paper regarding the privacy control of third party access of the personal information. An approach is proposed which allows users to share their access control configuration for TPA s with their friends who can reuse and rate such configurations [3].