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The increase in use of Smart mobile devices has allowed for an ever growing market for services providers. These services are increasingly used to connect to users’ on-line private information through social networking sites that share and personalise on-line information. This leads to the problem of privacy leaks stemming from an application’s non-adherence to a predefined set of privacy policies. This paper presents a formal methods tool to reliably restrict the access to content in on-line social network services. The Poporo tool builds upon a previous work in which we provided a predicate calculus definition for social networking in B that models social-network content, privacy policies, and social-network friendship relations. This paper presents the implementation and the functionality of our Poporo tool through a running example in the domain of social networking sites.
Sorren Hanvey and Néestor Cataño have been funded by the Portuguese Research Agency FCT through the R&D Project WeSP, PT/SE/0028/2008.
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Cataño, N., Hanvey, S., Rueda, C. (2012). Poporo: A Formal Methods Tool for Fast-Checking of Social Network Privacy Policies. In: Furia, C.A., Nanz, S. (eds) Objects, Models, Components, Patterns. TOOLS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30561-0_2
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