POSN: A privacy preserving decentralized social network app for mobile devices

Eric Klukovich, Esra Erdin, Mehmet Hadi Gunes

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    Abstract

    Social networking has influenced billions of users to interact and share information online with friends and family. As online interactions have become the norm and online platforms amassed user data, privacy concerns for the user data has increased. Decentralized architectures can provide better privacy to the users by removing the central authority but have performance issues in dissemination of the content. In this study, we present the Personal Online Social Network (POSN) app that implements a cloud-backed peer-to-peer decentralized OSN using mobile devices. In POSN, each user utilizes a storage cloud to store and distribute encrypted content to his/her friends. Direct key management allows the user to have fine-grained access control of the shared content, and protects the data from being accessed by third parties. The POSN app is available at https://github.com/posn/POSN-app.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016
    EditorsRavi Kumar, James Caverlee, Hanghang Tong
    Pages1426-1429
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509028467
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 21 Nov 2016
    Event2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016 - San Francisco, United States
    Duration: 18 Aug 201621 Aug 2016

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016

    Conference

    Conference2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2016
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySan Francisco
    Period18/08/1621/08/16

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