User as a Super Admin: Giving the End-Users Full Control to Manage Access to Their Data in Social Media Networks

With the huge expansion of social media networks, they become an important part of users’ daily life everywhere, where users have large amount of data stored in these networks. these networks provide users with the tools and settings to control their privacy and security. Even though these settings give the users control over how to manage access to their data, they remain according to the specifications of the network providers rather than the user himself/herself. Role-based Access Control (RBAC) is a method used widely in managing user authorizations and restrictions in computer systems. In this paper we suggest an RBAC system called Grant, that provides fine-grained access control to user data. This system is also pluggable and can be used with any existing system or social network. Grant system gives the end user the full control to manage access to their data and create customs roles based on their needs. The system has a user interface to enable users to define roles and permissions over their resources inside social media networks. We show that our system Grant, can be used to create custom RBAC policies easily, and it can be used with other systems.