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Detecting and predicting privacy violations in online social networks

Kafalı, Özgur, Günay, Akin, Yolum, Pinar (2013) Detecting and predicting privacy violations in online social networks. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 32 (1). pp. 161-190. ISSN 0926-8782. (doi:10.1007/s10619-013-7124-8) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:65858)

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Abstract

Online social networks have become an essential part of social and work life. They enable users to share, discuss, and create content together with various others. Obviously, not all content is meant to be seen by all. It is extremely important to ensure that content is only shown to those that are approved by the content’s owner so that the owner’s privacy is preserved. Generally, online social networks are promising to preserve privacy through privacy agreements, but still everyday new privacy leakages are taking place. Ideally, online social networks should be able to manage and maintain their agreements through well-founded methods. However, the dynamic nature of the online social networks is making it difficult to keep private information contained.

We have developed PROTOSS, a run time tool for detecting and predicting privacy violations in online social networks. PROTOSS captures relations among users, their privacy agreements with an online social network operator, as well as domain-based semantic information and rules. It uses model checking to detect if relations among the users will result in the violation of privacy agreements. It can further use the semantic information to infer possible violations that have not been specified by the user explicitly. In addition to detection, PROTOSS can predict possible future violations by feeding in a hypothetical future world state. Through a running example, we show that PROTOSS can detect and predict subtle leakages, similar to the ones reported in real life examples. We study the performance of our system on the scenario as well as on an existing Facebook dataset.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/s10619-013-7124-8
Uncontrolled keywords: Privacy-preserving social networking techniques, Model checking, Ontological reasoning, Commitments
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General) > Q335 Artificial intelligence
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Ozgur Kafali
Date Deposited: 02 Feb 2018 14:40 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:25 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/65858 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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