Presently, the growth of Social media is explosive among the users. Increasingly developed social websites like Flickr, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn etc permits the users to create, share and view the post. Confidentiality is a leading factor required in Social Networks. The social users upload their photos to the social sites that intend to gain public interest for social purposes. The exposure of personal information leads to slipping process like identity stealing, morphing etc, which are against the privacy violations. Relied upon the personal characteristics of users, the privacy settings of each user should be defined. In this paper, a relational study about the privacy settings in Online Social structure is examined. Initiated by the importance of social networks among the social users and their behavior towards Online Social Networks, which is followed by the privacy techniques suggested by other researchers are explored. At last, an overview about the merits and demerits of privacy designs and schemes for the user-uploaded images are presented. The study results a new privacy system that controls the confidential information from being accessed from different devices, including mobile devices and computers.
Using User Behavior to Measure Privacy on Online Social Networks