Venkata N Inukollu¹, Sailaja Arsi¹, Divya D Keshamoni¹ and Manikanta Inukollu², ¹Texas Tech University, USA and ²Bhaskar Engineering College, India

Security policies describe the demeanor of a system through specific rules and are becoming an increasingly popular approach for static and dynamic environment applications.Online social networks have become a de facto portal for Internet access for millions of users. Users share different content on social media sometimes which includes personal information.However, users entrust the social network providers with such personal information.Although social networking sites offer privacy controls, the sites provide insufficient controls to restrict data sharing and let users restrict how their data is handled and viewed by other users.To match the privacy demands of an online social network user, we have suggested a new security policy and have tested the policy successfully on various levels.

User defined policy, Social networking, Policy, User privacy.