Security Issues of Media Sharing in Social Cloud

A social network, as the name suggests is a network of individuals created for social communication. It is a massive platform where people interact with others anywhere in the world online based on some relationship. The relationship can be friendship, family membership or others with some shared interests. One can share anything like profiles, photos, videos etc, with friends. To make communication more effective, content sharing has been widely adapted. With the rapid growth of social networking sites, there has been an increased use of content sharing through social networks. With more and more contents getting shared, the security and rights of shared content are getting compromised. Several existing media sharing sites like YouTube, Flicicr, Facebook etc, face several issues with content sharing such as upload limitations, unsupported tracking model and copyright violations. Cloud computing allows the distribution of services such as storage and processing. A social network can be blended with a cloud network. Such a social cloud provides the functionalities of both cloud computing and social networking. This paper aims to examine the security issues associated with media sharing on cloud based social networks. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education