SNS: Privacy at stake

Abstract

Nowadays all Internet savvy people knows the buzzword social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut etc, On these SNS we provide our personal data which we share among our group contacts. To maintain our personal data as private even in shared environment, data privacy is an indispensable security requirement. In this paper we discussed various provisions for data privacy from technology and government laws point of view. In addition we proposed our architecture to implement data privacy along with Watermarking. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.