FROM FACEBOOK TO SAFEBOOK REVIEW ON METHODS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK DATA PROTECTION

Abstract: This paper reviews methods to protect social network data for the past 20 years. The social networking sites are the service providers who always used to be connected with peoples to share the information like photos, videos and personal messages. As the social networks usage grows, the risks behind them also increases. That makes the hackers, spammers, virus writers to attack the vulnerable nodes. Many users have problems for publishing posts and photos in a way that will protect them from the undesirable side effects to their online identities to support users' desire for "interactional privacy". Protection of the user‟s private sphere in online dealings with other people has suggested some improvements which have already been made for the networks such as Facebook. In a practical setting, however, these improved means are either too rigid to do justice to users' multifaceted habits or they are very complicated to manage because they try to solve a host of different problems all at the same time. An intruder may impose the privacy of the node with the help of published social network data and some background knowledge. For better privacy, the identities of the label such as social security number (SSN) of an employee, disease of a patient, etc., are replaced by some unique identity.

Keywords: Social Networking, Hackers, Virus, Facebook, Intruder, Privacy, Security