Access-control-based Efficient Privacy Protection Method for Social Networking Services

Abstract

There has been a recent surge in the popularity of social networking services (SNSs) and SNSs have grown rapidly, as has the variety of information shared through SNSs. However, SNSs raise concerns about the security and privacy of users because the information written by the user might be exposed in the SNS. Many studies have addressed this issue, but previous research has lacked methods that can be applied efficiently in the SNS environment. In this paper, we propose a method for the efficient protection of privacy in SNS based on access control