Privacy Preservation in Decentralized Online Social Networks

Lorenz Schwittmann, Matthaus Wander, Christopher Boelmann, Torben Weis
2014 IEEE Internet Computing  
The desire for personal data of large online social networks arouses concerns from privacy advocates and leery users. Researchers have proposed decentralized architectures to create online social networks with technically imposed privacy preservation. This article surveys several approaches for their privacy benefit and discusses their architecture and suitability for mobile devices.
doi:10.1109/mic.2013.131 fatcat:qbawczgirvgetnq2fbrldaywxy