Title
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 that 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TKDE.2012.97
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiparty authorization requirement,shared data,access control model,privacy issue,multiple user,online social network,privacy concern,digital social interaction,online social networks,multiparty access control,policy enforcement mechanism,multiparty policy specification scheme,authorisation,sensitivity,internet,authorization,security model,social network,privacy
Data mining,World Wide Web,Social network,Computer science,Computer security,Usability,Authorization,Access control,restrict,Information sharing,Computer security model,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
7
1041-4347
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
71
2.09
28
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hongxin Hu1123082.32
Gail-Joon Ahn23012203.39
Jan Jorgensen31264.02