Privacy-aware access control in social networks

Abstract: With Social Networks (SNs)  allowing the users to host large amounts  of  personal  data  on their  platforms,  privacy  protection mechanisms  are becoming increasingly  important. The  current privacy protection mechanisms  offered by  SNs mostly enforce  access policies which  are based  on  users'  privacy settings.  The  task of  setting privacy preferences may be tedious  and confusing for the average user who has  hundreds of connections (e.g.,  acquaintance, colleague, best friend, etc.) and  extensive profiles. Hence, users often  end up with policies that do not  sufficiently protect their personal information, thus facilitating potential privacy breaches and information misuse.

In this  talk we  discuss the challenges  of enforcing  access control policies that meet users privacy preferences, and we propose a privacy protection  mechanism  which  supports  semi-automated  generation  of access rules for users' profile information.  The talk is intended for a general computer science audience.

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