Privacy and Traceability in Social Networking Sites

Abstract

Over the last few years the use of social networking sites has been dramatically increased. However, this extensive growth is not without consequences, identity theft, cyber bullying and child exploitation are only some of the problems that have arisen and are directly connected to privacy violation and trace ability problems that are present in such platforms. This paper proposes an architecture for easing the aforementioned problems and demonstrates it through its implementation in facebook. Furthermore, the main advantages of the proposed approach are discussed in terms of future implementations in other social networking sites.