A Framework for Privacy and Hate Speeches Control on Social Media in Mobile Computing

摘要

The hype in information technology has led to the use of mobile devices to carry out several activities such as financial transactions, communications, learning and other related activities using the internet. Social networking platforms today are used to facilitate the activities carried out on mobile devices. The use of these social network platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Instagram among others on mobile devices is called mobile social network. A mobile social network makes it faster and easier for users to relate to one another and carry out other related activities at convenience. The major challenge with the use of social network applications on mobile devices is that, many illegal activities are carried out such as hate speeches and bigotry statement which has demeaning the interest of users. This research work proposes a technique for discovering and blocking hate speeches and bigotry users on social network platforms using text scanning and matching algorithm; in order to curtail the damages caused to national security and unity by such statement.