Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
NOYB: privacy in online social networks
Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks
FlyByNight: mitigating the privacy risks of social networking
Proceedings of the 7th ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
Link privacy in social networks
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Anonymous opinion exchange over untrusted social networks
Proceedings of the Second ACM EuroSys Workshop on Social Network Systems
UPP: User Privacy Policy for Social Networking Sites
ICIW '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
Persona: an online social network with user-defined privacy
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
De-anonymizing Social Networks
SP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
FaceCloak: An Architecture for User Privacy on Social Networking Sites
CSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering - Volume 03
You are who you know: inferring user profiles in online social networks
Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Enabling Secure Secret Sharing in Distributed Online Social Networks
ACSAC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Secret interest groups (SIGs) in social networks with an implementation on Facebook
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Safebook: A privacy-preserving online social network leveraging on real-life trust
IEEE Communications Magazine
Scramble! your social network data
PETS'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
FakeBook: Detecting Fake Profiles in On-Line Social Networks
ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
Virtual private social networks and a facebook implementation
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are having a significant impact on the social life of many people - even beyond the millions of people that use them directly. These websites usually allow users to present a profile of themselves through a long list of very detailed information. However, even when such SNSs have advanced privacy policies, users are often not aware of their settings and, on top of that, users cannot abstain from sharing a minimum set of information (e.g. name and location). Such a small set of information has been proven to be enough to completely re-identify a user [22, 25]. In this work we introduce the concept of Virtual Private Social Networks (VPSNs), a concept inspired by the one of Virtual Private Networks in traditional computer networks. We argue that VPSNs can mitigate the privacy issues of SNSs, building private social networks that leverage architecture publicly available for SNSs. Furthermore, we propose FaceVPSN, which is an implementation of VPSNs for Facebook, one of the most used SNSs. FaceVPSN is the first privacy threats mitigation solution that has a light and completely distributed architecture - no coordinator is required. Furthermore, it can be implemented without any particular collaboration from the SNS platform. Finally, experimental evaluation shows that FaceVPSN adds a limited overhead, which, we argue, is acceptable for the user.