Design and evaluation of a wide-area event notification service
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
SCRIBE: The Design of a Large-Scale Event Notification Infrastructure
NGC '01 Proceedings of the Third International COST264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication
Seeing-Is-Believing: Using Camera Phones for Human-Verifiable Authentication
SP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
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
A large-scale empirical study of P3P privacy policies: Stated actions vs. legal obligations
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Integrating Overlay and Social Networks for Seamless P2P Networking
WETICE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE 17th Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
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
Trust and nuanced profile similarity in online social networks
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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
IP over P2P: enabling self-configuring virtual IP networks for grid computing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
An Approach for Protecting Privacy on Social Networks
ICSNC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications
Towards active detection of identity clone attacks on online social networks
Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy
Virtual private social networks
Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy
Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy
Distributed data usage control for web applications: a social network implementation
Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Data and application security and privacy
Re-Socializing Online Social Networks
GREENCOM-CPSCOM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on Green Computing and Communications & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing
ACConv -- An Access Control Model for Conversational Web Services
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Scramble! your social network data
PETS'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
Safebook: A privacy-preserving online social network leveraging on real-life trust
IEEE Communications Magazine
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The popularity of Social Networking Sites (SNS) is growing rapidly, with the largest sites serving hundreds of millions of users and their private information. The privacy settings of these SNSs do not allow the user to avoid sharing some information (e.g., name and profile picture) with all the other users. Also, no matter the privacy settings, this information is always shared with the SNS (that could sell this information or be hacked). To mitigate these threats, we recently introduced the concept of Virtual Private Social Networks (VPSNs). In this work we propose the first complete architecture and implementation of VPSNs for Facebook. In particular, we address an important problem left unexplored in our previous research—that is the automatic propagation of updated profiles to all the members of the same VPSN. Furthermore, we made an in-depth study on performance and implemented several optimization to reduce the impact of VPSN on user experience. The proposed solution is lightweight, completely distributed, does not depend on the collaboration from Facebook, does not have a central point of failure, it offers (with some limitations) the same functionality as Facebook, and apart from some simple settings, the solution is almost transparent to the user. Thorough experiments, with an extended set of parameters, we have confirmed the feasibility of the proposal and have shown a very limited time-overhead experienced by the user while browsing Facebook pages.