A New Access Control Scheme for Facebook-Style Social Networks

The popularity of online social networks (OSNs) makes the protection of users' private information an important but scientifically challenging problem. In the literature, relationship-based access control schemes have been proposed to address this problem. However, with the dynamic developments...

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Published in2014 Ninth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors Jun Pang, Yang Zhang
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2014
Subjects
Access control
Collaboration
Companies
Educational institutions
Facebook
hybrid logic
privacy
Semantics
social networks
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Summary:The popularity of online social networks (OSNs) makes the protection of users' private information an important but scientifically challenging problem. In the literature, relationship-based access control schemes have been proposed to address this problem. However, with the dynamic developments of OSNs, we identify new access control requirements which cannot be fully captured by the current schemes. In this paper, we focus on public information in OSNs and treat it as a new dimension which users can use to regulate access to their resources. We define a new OSN model containing users and their relationships as well as public information. Based on this model, we introduce a variant of hybrid logic for formulating access control policies. A type of category relations among public information are exploited to further improve our logic for its usage in practice. In addition, we propose a few solutions to address the problem of information reliability in OSNs.
DOI:10.1109/ARES.2014.9