BMC031

Privacy and Security in Online Social Media

Session2025-26 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

MCA · Sem 4 (Elective-3)

Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1: Introduction to Online Social Networks

8 hrs

Introduction to Social Networks, From offline to Online Communities, Online Social Networks, Evolution of Online Social Networks, Analysis and Properties, Security Issues in Online Social Networks, Trust Management in Online Social Networks, Controlled Information Sharing in Online Social Networks, Identity Management in Online Social Networks, data collection from social networks, challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls in online social networks, APIs; Collecting data from Online Social Media.

Unit2

Unit 2: Trust Management in Online Social Networks

8 hrs

Trust and Policies, Trust and Reputation Systems, Trust in Online Social, Trust Properties, Trust Components, Social Trust and Social Capital, Trust Evaluation Models, Trust, credibility, and reputations in social systems; Online social media and Policing, Information privacy disclosure, revelation, and its effects in OSM and online social networks; Phishing in OSM & Identifying fraudulent entities in online social networks

Unit3

Unit 3: Controlled Information Sharing in Online Social Networks

8 hrs

Access Control Models, Access Control in Online Social Networks, Relationship-Based Access Control, Privacy Settings in Commercial Online Social Networks, Existing Access Control Approaches

Unit4

Unit 4: Identity Management in Online Social Networks

8 hrs

Identity Management, Digital Identity, Identity Management Models: From Identity 1.0 to Identity 2.0, Identity Management in Online Social Networks, Identity as Self-Presentation, Identity thefts, Open Security Issues in Online Social Networks

Unit5

Unit 5: Case Study

8 hrs

Privacy and security issues associated with various social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Understand working of online social networksK2
  2. CO2Describe privacy policies of online social mediaK2
  3. CO3Analyse countermeasures to control information sharing in Online social networks.K3
  4. CO4Apply knowledge of identity management in Online social networksK3
  5. CO5Compare various privacy issues associated with popular social media.K3

Textbooks

  1. Security and Privacy-Preserving in Social Networks, Editors: Chbeir, Richard, Al Bouna, Bechara (Eds.), Spinger, 2013.
  2. Security and Trust in Online Social Networks, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Marco Viviani, Morgan & Claypool publications.
  3. Security and Privacy in Social Networks, Editors: Altshuler, Y., Elovici, Y., Cremers, A.B., Aharony, N., Pentland, A. (Eds.), Springer, 2013
  4. Security and privacy preserving in social networks, Elie Raad & Richard Chbeir, Richard Chbeir& Bechara Al Bouna, 2013
  5. Social Media Security: Leveraging Social Networking While Mitigating Risk, Michael Cross, 2013

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 31 of the original AKTU PDF.

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