Providing a Blockchain-Based Method to Protect Users’ Privacy in Social Networks
Subject Areas : ICTIbrahim Zamani Babgohari 1 , Monireh Hosseini 2 *
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2 - Department of Industrial Engineering K. N. Toosi University of Technology
Keywords: Privacy, Information Security, Blockchain,
Abstract :
Today, social networks have brought a lot of convenience to their users, but there are still problems of not respecting privacy. This has caused the security and privacy protection of social network users to be important. Users share a large amount of personal data on social networks, attackers can obtain sensitive personal information simply by using social networks. and carry out various types of attacks and identity theft. Many social networks do not have their own data centers and usually store user data in third-party data centers. These centers can share this data with others and provide user data to other organizations without their knowledge. Owners of social networks can provide users' data to information agencies or use them for advertising purposes. In this research, in the first part, we have described the introduction of the subject, and then in the second part, we have discussed the literature on the subject, which is mostly focused on the centralized methods of privacy protection, and then in the third part, we have described the research method. And we have presented a method that increases the privacy of users in social networks to a great extent by using blockchain. In the fourth part, we have described the implementation of the research and finally we have concluded and summarized this research.
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