Xiaofeng Chen & Xinyi Huang 
Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data 
8th International Symposium, SocialSec 2022, Xi’an, China, October 16-18, 2022, Proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, Social Sec 2022, which took place in Xi’an, China, in October 2022.The 23 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, technical quality, as well as on their practical impact or their level of advancement of the field’s foundations. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cryptography and its applications; Network security and privacy protection; Data detection; Blockchain and its applications.