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Generally the online networking sites can access the personal data of the users due to the terms of the service. So the users don’t have any privacy over their data in the internet. But, in a recent development,the National Science Foundation has proposed a ‘Peer-To-Peer System Architecture’ to safeguard the privacy of the netizens.
Landon Cox of Duke University has been given the responsibility to devise and develop a structure to address the problems of the networking guys. He along with his students Amre Shakimov and Dongtao Liu will work with professor Ramon Caceres at AT and T Labs to develop ‘peer-to-peer system architecture’ in which information is multiplied.
According to Landon Cox, the netizens don’t have enough power to control their data. So it is obvious that data sharing won’t have enough privacy among the online networking sites like Facebook.
He said, "My concern is that they're under the control of a central entity. The social networks currently control all the information that users throw into them. I don't think that's necessarily evil. But it raises some concerns.
"A disgruntled employee could leak information about social network users. They could also become attractive targets for hackers and other computer ne'er-do-wells."
Cox says that the rights mentioned during the sign up of a site help the site in securing the license to display and distribute all content posted by users in any way the provider sees fit. But now there is the possibility to have a new alternative.
Cox said, "What the grant will do is fund research into alternatives for providing social networking services that don't concentrate all this information in a single place."
