Because of growing popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) and huge amount of
sensitive shared data, preserving privacy is becoming a major issue for OSN users. While …

Abstract Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) have recently captured the interest
of users because of the more control given to them over their shared contents. Indeed, most …

Despite their tremendous success, centrally controlled cloud-based Online Social Networks
(OSNs) have inherent issues related to user privacy and control. These issues have …

Current Online social networks (OSN) are web services run on logically centralized
infrastructure. Large OSN sites use content distribution networks and thus distribute some of …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become enormously popular. However, two aspects of
many current OSNs have important implications with regards to privacy: their centralized …

Recent years have seen several earnest initiatives from both academic researchers as well
as open source communities to implement and deploy decentralized online social networks …

Current popular and widely adopted Online Social Networks (OSNs) all follow a logically
centered architecture, by which one single entity owns unprecedented collections of …

The widespread diffusion of Online Social Networks has given unforeseen opportunities for
their users to share contents and mutually interact. However, current platforms offer …

With the increasing popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs), one type of Big Data,
namely personal, sensitive, and behavioral information, is being collected, analyzed, and …

Today's online social networking (OSN) sites do little to protect the privacy of their users'
social networking information. Given the highly sensitive nature of the information these sites …