Research Article
An opensocial extension for enabling user-controlled persona in online social networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8401, author={Rodrigo Lopes and Hakan Akkan and William Claycomb and Dongwan Shin}, title={An opensocial extension for enabling user-controlled persona in online social networks}, proceedings={The Fourth International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={TRUSTCOL}, year={2009}, month={12}, keywords={user privacy social network opensocial}, doi={10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8401} }- Rodrigo Lopes
Hakan Akkan
William Claycomb
Dongwan Shin
Year: 2009
An opensocial extension for enabling user-controlled persona in online social networks
TRUSTCOL
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8401
Abstract
User privacy is a challenging issue that must be addressed urgently in current online social networking (SN) sites. One of the fundamental problems associated with the issue is the lack of support of a user-centric approach to managing and sharing user profile information in current SN systems. In this paper we present a user-centric approach based on a credential system to enabling a user-controlled attribute (persona) sharing in online SN sites. Specifically we extend a Google-initiated open source project called OpenSocial, which provides a framework to support user attribute sharing between gadgets and online SN sites, in order to allow users to selectively share their attributes among online SN sites. This paper details the design and implementation of our extension.
