Fuzzy TOPSIS-based privacy measurement in multiple online social networks

Abstract

Abstract Information leakage has become an urgent problem in multiple Online Social Networks (OSNs). The interactive communication of users has raised several privacy concerns. However, the current related work on privacy measurement only considers the privacy disclosure of user profile settings, ignoring the importance of profile attributes. To solve the efficient measurement problem, we consider the influence of attribute weight on privacy disclosure scores and propose a privacy measurement method by quantifying users’ privacy disclosure scores in social networks. Through introducing Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), we propose a Privacy Scores calculation model based on Fuzzy TOPSIS decision method (PSFT), that is more accurate calculate users’ privacy disclosure scores and that can improve users’ privacy awareness in multiple OSNs. Users can reasonably set the attribute file configuration based on privacy scores and attribute weight. We conduct extensive experiments on synthetic data set and real data set. The results of the experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.

Keywords

• Multiattribute decision making
• Fuzzy set
• TOPSIS
• Attribute weight
• Privacy measurement