Temporal and Spatial Clocking Based Location Related Privacy in Geo Social Networks

:As we know now a day’s Social Networking sites are playing major role in personal as well as business life. As the social networking sites are connecting B2B, B2C and C2C (i.e. Business to Business, Business to Customer and Customer to Customer) they are becoming part of each and every individual life. As per the recent survey done by the Times of India and New York Times almost 60% of the people using the social networking sites to interact with their friends and to make new friends. But they are not thinking about privacy issues which they are facing because of these social networking sites. In this paper we are going to present how to overcome the problem of Location related privacy in social networking sites. Though it is a very small issue in the aspect of discussion but it is creating huge disturbance in the lives of so many people. Here in this paper we are going to discuss the techniques how to overcome the problem of Location related privacy in social networking sites using methods of Temporal and Spatial Clocking. And also the different social networking sites and their available features up to which extent they can provide security to the user. So this paper clearly explains how to protect our location details from the other users by means of temporal and spatial cloaking. Keywords— GEO, privacy threats, social network, temporal and spatial clocking