Preventing Identity Disclosure in Social Networks Using Intersected Node

Amardeep Singh, Divya Bansal and Sanjeev Sofat
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Amardeep Singh: PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India
Divya Bansal: PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India
Sanjeev Sofat: PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP), 2016, vol. 10, issue 3, 25-41

Abstract: Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc. provide data of its users to the demanding organizations to better comprehend the quality of their potential clients. Publishing confidential data of social network users in its raw form raises several privacy and security concerns. Recently, some anonymization techniques have been developed to address these issues. In this paper, a technique to prevent identity disclosure through structure attacks has been proposed which not only prevents identity disclosure but also preserves utility of data published by online social networks. Algorithms have been developed by using noise nodes/edges with the consideration of introducing minimum change in the original graphical structure of social networks. The authors' work is unique in the sense that previous works are based on edge editing only but their proposed work protects against structure attacks using mutual nodes in the social network and the effectiveness of the proposed technique has been proved using APL (Average Path Length) and information loss as parameters.

Date: 2016
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