Research on extended access control mechanism in online social network

Abstract

Aiming at the problem of inability to extend control over the data published by users in social networks, an extended access mechanism based on privacy labels was proposed. This mechanism granted users and data different types of labels based on the number of user relationship hops and resource forwarding hops, so as to achieve fine-grained extended access control to the data. The generation algorithm and distribution method of privacy labels were proposed. The constraint rules of privacy label were designed and the possible policy conflicts were analyzed. Finally, the test proves that the mechanism achieves fine-grained extended control in social networks, and proves its security and validity of the mechanism.

Keywords

• online social network
• privacy label
• extended control
• privacy protection
• information security