Computer Engineering and Intelligent Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1719 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2863 (Online) Vol.9, No.8, 2018 1 A Framework for Privacy and Hate Speeches Control on Social Media in Mobile Computing Souley Boukari 1* Ismail Abdulkarim Adamu 2 1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria 2. Department of Computer Science Technology, Gombe State Polytechnic Bajoga, Gombe, Nigeria * E-mail of the corresponding author: adamuismail200@yahoo.com Abstract 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. Keywords: Mobile social network, social networks 1. Introduction The advent and use of internet in this twenty first century has made it easy for people in different parts of the world to interact and exchange meaningful ideas easily. The architecture of the internet is so flexible and fast that people can communicate sensitive and vital information around the globe within the blink of the eye (Tonge et al, 2013). To enjoy from the diverse benefits of the internet, social networking applications such as Facebook, twitter, Whatsapp and several others were developed and being used (Muse, 2014). These social network applications have carouse a lot of addictions by both business men to promote their businesses and politicians to convey their political interest, communicate with citizens and individual who use them to meet new friends around the world (Jabee & Alam, 2016; Singh & Singh, 2017). These social networks platforms are today mostly used on mobile devices for easy accessibility and utilization, a new development called mobile social networks (Ometov et al, 2017, ). Mobile social networks today makes it easier for people to access and enjoy the dividends of social networks for transactions, learning, communications and other related social activities at convenience and without delay (Mirzoev et al, 2014; Singh & Singh, 2017). While the advantages of the internet and social networks cannot be over emphasized, some individuals have adopted the tool for social engineering thereby causing harm with it rather than good. Many cybercrime such as hacking, theft, cyber stalking, identity theft, malicious software, child soliciting and abuse are perpetrated on this platform. Other common cases in Africa, most specifically Nigeria is hate speeches and bigotry statement which has drawn government attention in recent times are executed on social media (Reddy & Reddy, 2014). These threats posed by malicious users have caused so much harm to different countries must especially Nigeria in terms of security, economy and the unity of the nation at large. The need to scan, match and filter out hate speeches and bigotry statement using appropriate technique on social networks platform become imperative in order to combat it rampage. The remaining part of the work is organized as follows section 2 related work, section 3 methodology, section 4 expected result and section 5 conclusion. 2. Literature Review Social media, most especially Facebook, is very useful today in creating a platform to share ideas and meet new friends around the globe. However, the medium has been hijacked by different individuals, who hurl abusive word to friends or other users on the platform. In view of that, Ekwueme and Anthony ( 2017), conducted a review to identity the excess of abuse and fowl languages on social media. In their research, they discovered that, the abuse of social media is in the increesaes and very little or no effort are made to check mate them. They finally urge the government to riseup against the abuse of the social media platform and also train personal that brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE): E-Journals