2013/12/01 by Hasan M. Jamil, Jamil, Hasan M.
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Databases (cs.DB) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #cs.CR #cs.DB #cs.SI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.0189
8 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2013/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2013/12/01 · arxiv updated 2013/12/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Considerable concerns exist over privacy on social networks, and huge debates persist about how to extend the artifacts users need to effectively protect their rights to privacy. While many interesting ideas have been proposed, no single approach appears to be comprehensive enough to be the front runner. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive and novel reference conceptual model for privacy in constantly evolving social networks and establish its novelty by briefly contrasting it with contemporary research. We also present the contours of a possible query language that we can develop with desirable features in light of the reference model, and refer to a new query language, \em PiQL, developed on the basis of this model that aims to support user driven privacy policy authoring and enforcement. The strength of our model is that such extensions are now possible by developing appropriate linguistic constructs as part of query languages such as SQL, as demonstrated in PiQL.