Secure online social network techniques

Abstract

In the last decades, Online Social Networks (OSN) has become the most convenient and preferable means of communication between people regardless of age, culture, educational background or job title. The fast development of online social networks OSNs in turn gives rise to certain privacy risk and concerns towards the safety of using the OSNs for the disclosure of some personal data. In this work, a proposed secure online social network system designed and developed as a Web 2.0 technology application with several techniques in order to protect the sensitive data and personal information for the users and increase the security and privacy issue for OSN users.