ENHANCED PRIVACY SETTINGS IN ONLINE CONTENT SHARING WEBSITES USING KEY DISTRIBUTION CENTER (KDC)

The growth of Social media eruptive among the people. Progressively developed social sites like Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Flickr etc allows the users to create, view and share the post. Privacy is an essential facet required in Online Social Media. The users upload their photos of interest to the social sites that expect to gain public interest for social motive. The uncovered personal information lead to many slipping process like identity creeping, privacy breaching, stealing, morphing etc. which are considered as the privacy violations. In this paper, a comparative study about the necessity of the privacy in Online Social Networks is inspected. Commenced by the importance of the Social media among the users and their characteristic behavior towards the network which is followed by the privacy techniques coined by many researchers and finally the enhanced techniques to improvise the privacy are studied. At last, an overview of the merits and demerits of the privacy techniques for the user's uploaded image are presented. Result of this work can be utilized to develop a new system which will help the user to provide privacy to the sensitive information and control it from getting stolen from any mobile devices.