I-Corps: An Outsourced and Completely Private Social Network: You&Me

I-Corps：一个外包且完全私有的社交网络：您

• 批准号: 1522781
• 负责人: Wei Jiang
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Missouri University of Science and Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1522781&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Outsourced; Completely; Private; Social

Currently, any data posted or stored on the existing social networks are visible to the social network providers. Once a user posts a message or stores personal information on a social network, it is no longer in the control of the user how the data will be used by the social network service providers. In the past few years, many media organizations have been arguing that certain providers are probably selling user profile data to third-party advertisers to make profits. In the wake of such criticisms, users become more concerned about their privacy leaving them with a serious question as to whether or not any social network provider can be seriously trusted. Since the user profile data reside on the servers of a social network provider, there is no way for a user to verify whether the provider is strictly enforcing the user's privacy policies.The I-Corps team is currently working on a prototype system of You&Me. It combines the secure techniques generated from the principal investigator's previous research project, the existing open source database management systems, and open source user interface development packages to implement You&Me. So far, the team has finalized the basic software architecture and components and started implementing the fundamental features. At the end of this project, the team expects to have the basic version of the prototype system as a demo. The prototype system will show potential investors how You&Me can fully protect user privacy, and at the same time, the users can still enjoy the same or very similar functionalities as the existing social networks.

当前，在现有社交网络上发布或存储的任何数据都可以看到社交网络提供商。用户发布消息或将个人信息存储在社交网络上后，它不再在用户控制中如何由社交网络服务提供商使用数据。在过去的几年中，许多媒体组织一直在争辩说，某些提供商可能正在向第三方广告商出售用户资料数据以获利。在受到批评之后，用户更加关注自己的隐私，这使他们对是否可以认真信任任何社交网络提供商一个严重的问题。 由于用户配置文件数据位于社交网络提供商的服务器上，因此用户无法验证提供商是否严格执行用户的隐私策略。I-Corps团队当前正在处理您和ME的原型系统。它结合了主要研究者先前的研究项目，现有的开源数据库管理系统和开源用户界面开发软件包生成的安全技术，以实现您和我。到目前为止，团队已经完成了基本软件体系结构和组件，并开始实施基本功能。在该项目的结尾，团队希望将原型系统的基本版本作为演示。原型系统将向您和ME如何完全保护用户隐私显示潜在的投资者，同时，用户仍然可以享受与现有社交网络相同或非常相似的功能。