Abstract
As "online social networks" (OSN) are much about publishing personal data, it seems contrary to talk about privacy | at �rst. Unless it is realized, that only protection from unintended disclosure allows to join in and share data intentionally. We discuss how OSN may be improved to introduce privacy more similar to normal social structures. We discuss the principle of separation, and argue in ...
Abstract
As "online social networks" (OSN) are much about publishing personal data, it seems contrary to talk about privacy | at �rst. Unless it is realized, that only protection from unintended disclosure allows to join in and share data intentionally. We discuss how OSN may be improved to introduce privacy more similar to normal social structures. We discuss the principle of separation, and argue in favour of short trust path. This leads to the conclusion that OSN have to be organised in a distributed
manner.