Multi-Party Access Control Mechanism in Online Social Networks

Social networking is an essential part of life for people around the world these days. Social networking is a form of social media, used for interactive, educational, informational or entertaining purposes. Even though social media comes in many forms all of them are related to each other. Social networking is also a tool to create and join groups, learn about latest news and events, play games, chat and to share music and video. Some social networks provide facilities to the users’ to partition their group of friends based on social community, organization, geographical location, or how well they knows each other. The main challenge in social network is the sharing of data among heterogeneous users. The proposed method provide a systematic mechanism to identify and resolve privacy conflicts for data sharing, and different access control mechanisms.