Enhanced Privacy and Surveillance for Online Social Networks

An Online Social Network (OSN) is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people. The OSN's allow users to share interests, activities, social details and professional details. Some of the OSN's that are currently being used are Facebook, Twitter, Orkut etc. The major problem of social networks is providing privacy to the users. Social privacy, institutional privacy and surveillance are the key problems that are being faced by the OSN users. We developed a novel method to provide institutional privacy and surveillance to the OSN users. We introduced a new algorithm HSurveillance, which effectively implements the surveillance in OSN. The institutional privacy is provided to the users using locking mechanism. We believe that the proposed method will resolve the key security and privacy problems experienced by the OSN users.