ABSTRACT

Profit is the main participation incentive for social network providers. Its reliance on user
profiles, built from a wealth of voluntarily revealed personal information, exposes users
to a variety of privacy vulnerabilities. We proposed to take first steps toward addressing
the conflict between profit and privacy in geo-social networks. We introduce PROFILR,
a framework for constructing location centric profiles (LCPs), aggregates built over the
profiles of users that have visited discrete locations (i.e., venues). PROFILR endows
users with strong privacy guarantees and providers with correctness assurances. In
addition to a venue centric approach, we propose a decentralized solution for computing
real time LCP snapshots over the profiles of collocated users.

Keywords: Privacy, Social Implications of Technology, Technology Social Factors,.

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 LIST OF FIGURE

Figure No. Figure Name Page No.

Fig 1.1 Secure Computing 4

Fig 3.1 Block Diagram 15

Fig 3.2 Solution Architecture (K=2) 17

Fig 3.3 Flowchart 26

Fig 3.4 Use Case For User 27

Fig 3.5 UML For Prover 28

Fig 3.6 Class Diagram 28

Fig 3.7 Sequence Diagram 29

Fig 3.8 Activity Diagram 30

Fig 5.1 User Home Page 34

Fig 5.2 My Location Option For Existing User 35

Fig 5.3 Map For My Location 35

Fig 5.4 Service Option For User 36

Fig 5.5 Map For Service 36

Fig 5.6 User Details Option For Prover 37

Fig 5.7 Location Details Option For Prover 38

Fig 5.8 Witness Tracking Option For Prover 39

Fig 5.9 User Detail Option For Verifier 40

Fig 5.10 Location Detail Option For Verifier 41

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 LIST OF TABLE

Table. No. Name Page No.

Table 2.1 Literature Review 13

Table 6.1 Yelp Venue Stats 42

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 LIST OF ACRONYMS

Sr. No. Acronyms Full Form

1. OCLC Online Computer Library Center

2. GSN Geosocial Network

3. PDA Personal Data Assistant

4. CDs/DVDs Compaq Disk/ Digital Versatile Disk

5. FSA Financial Services Authority

6. SOX Sarbanes-Oxley Act

7. PROFILR Profile of Registered User

8. LCP Location Centric Profiles

9. PII Personally Identifiable Information

10. OSN Online Social Networks

11. GPS Global Positioning System

12. PU Profile of User

13. CI-IND Check-In In distinguishability

14. TSS Threshold Secret Sharing

15. IP Internet Protocol

16. MAC Media Access Control

17. UML Unified Modeling Language

18. SQL Structured Query Language

19. CT Context

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 LIST OF PUBLICATION

Sr. Author Name Title Publication Year

No.

1. Prof. Vinod S. Bawane Bohaud Location and Ubi- IJREST, E-ISSN 2017
cacian Privacy in Geo-social 2349-7610
Suhas V. Kawle, Network
Anmol M. Chaware

2. Amol N. Dhote A Review on Proval IJREST, E-ISSN 2017

Anamika V. Nagrale Preserving Privacy & 2349-7610
Laleeta J. Mahule Security in Geosocial
Network