2019
DOI: 10.1109/tcss.2019.2941650
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BCOSN: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Online Social Network

Abstract: Online social networks (OSNs) are becoming more and more prevalent in people's life, but they face the problem of privacy leakage due to the centralized data management mechanism. The emergence of distributed OSNs (DOSNs) can solve this privacy issue, yet they bring inefficiencies in providing the main functionalities, such as access control and data availability. In this article, in view of the above-mentioned challenges encountered in OSNs and DOSNs, we exploit the emerging blockchain technique to design a n… Show more

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“…Other important projects are: Minds, FORESTING, 4 and SocialX. For what concerns academic proposals, BCOSN [17] represents a very important example of BOSM focused on privacy issues, where the blockchain is employed to provide decentralised access control services.…”
Section: Blockchain Technology and Social Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other important projects are: Minds, FORESTING, 4 and SocialX. For what concerns academic proposals, BCOSN [17] represents a very important example of BOSM focused on privacy issues, where the blockchain is employed to provide decentralised access control services.…”
Section: Blockchain Technology and Social Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Guidi (2020) presented a detailed characterisation of these social media platforms. Jiang and Zhang (2019) developed a blockchain-based DSN. In this social network, user data are kept in the blockchain and a user can modify and delete its data.…”
Section: Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other important projects are: Minds, FORESTING 7 , and SocialX. In terms of academic proposals, BCOSN [26] represents a BOSM focused on privacy issues, when the blockchain is used as a trusted server to provide central control services.…”
Section: B Blockchain-based Social Mediamentioning
confidence: 99%