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Tuesday 30 October 2012

MULTIPARTY ACCESS CONTROL FOR ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS:MODEL AND MECHANISMS


ABSTRACT:


Online social networks (OSNs) have experienced tremendous growth in recent 

years and become a de facto portal for hundreds of millions of Internet users. 

These OSNs offer attractive means for digital social interactions and 

information sharing, but also raise a number of security and privacy issues. 

While OSNs allow users to restrict access to shared data, they currently do not 

provide any mechanism to enforce privacy concerns over data associated with 

multiple users. To this end, we propose an approach to enable the protection of 

shared data associated with multiple users in OSNs. We formulate an access 

control model to capture the essence of multiparty authorization requirements, 

along with a multiparty policy specification scheme and a policy enforcement 

mechanism. Besides, we present a logical representation of our access control 

model which allows us to leverage the features of existing logic solvers to 

perform various analysis tasks on our model. We also discuss a proof-of-

concept prototype of our approach as part of an application in Facebook and 

provide usability study and system evaluation of our method.

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