Privacy and Access Control in Federated Social Networks

Pathak, Animesh; Rosca, George; Issarny, Valérie; Decat, Maarten; Lagaisse, Bert

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07452-8_7

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“…Researchers have worked towards the description, characterization, and the study of the future, of OSNSs [Breslin and Decker 2007;Heidemann et al 2012;Pathak et al 2014;Quan et al 2011]. The presentations are narrative, as opposed to introducing models abstracting the key concepts and functions of OSNSs.…”

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Universal Social Network Bus

Angarita

Lefevre

Ahvar

et al. 2019

ACM Trans. Internet Technol.

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Services (OSNSs) are changing the fabric of our society, impacting almost every aspect of it. Over the last decades, the aggressive market rivalry has led to the emergence of multiple competing, "closed" OSNSs. As a result, users are trapped in the walled gardens of their OSNS, encountering restrictions about what they can do with their personal data, the people they can interact with and the information they get access to. As an alternative to the platform lock-in, "open" OSNSs promote the adoption of open, standardized APIs. However, users still massively adopt closed OSNSs to benefit from the services' advanced functionalities and/or follow their "friends", although the users' virtual social sphere is ultimately limited by the OSNSs they join. Our work aims at overcoming such a limitation by enabling users to meet and interact beyond the boundary of their OSNSs, including reaching out to "friends" of distinct closed OSNSs. We specifically introduce USNB-Universal Social Network Bus, which revisits the "service bus" paradigm that enables interoperability across computing systems, to address the requirements of "social interoperability". USNB features synthetic profiles and personae for interaction across the boundaries of-closed and open- ,-profile-and non-profile-based-OSNSs through a reference social interaction service. We ran a 1-day workshop with a panel of users who experimented with the USNB prototype to assess the potential benefits of social interoperability for social network users. Results show the positive evaluation of users for USNB, especially as an enabler of applications for civic participation. This further opens up new perspectives for future work, among which, enforcing security and privacy guarantees.

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Universal Social Network Bus

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ACM Trans. Internet Technol.

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“…There have been efforts to describe, characterize, and envision the future of OSNSs [4], [7], [17], [18]. These works are written narratively, so they do not propose models for OSNSs and their functionalities.…”

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USNB: Enabling Universal Online Social Interactions

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Georgantas

Issarny

2017

2017 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC)

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Secure proximity-based identity pairing using an untrusted signalling service

Panton

Llewellyn‐Jones

Shone

et al. 2016

2016 13th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications &Amp; Networking Conference (CCNC)

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Abstract-New protocols such as WebRTC promise seamless in-browser peer-to-peer communications that in theory remove the need for third-party services. In practice, widespread use of Firewalls, NATS and dynamic IP addresses mean that overlay addressing or use of some fixed rendezvous point is still needed. In this paper we describe a proximity-based pairing scheme that uses a signalling service to minimise the trust requirements on the third party, achieving anonymity and avoiding the need for PKI, while still requiring only a simple asymmetric pairing protocol.

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Privacy and Access Control in Federated Social Networks

Cited by 4 publications

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USNB: Enabling Universal Online Social Interactions

Secure proximity-based identity pairing using an untrusted signalling service

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