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It is important to study the risks of publishing privacy-sensitive data. Even if sensitive identities (e.g., name, social security number) were removed and advanced data perturbation techniques were applied, several de-anonymization attacks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Wei-Han Lee , Changchang Liu , Shouling Ji , Prateek Mittal , Ruby Lee

Motivated by recently discovered privacy attacks on social networks, we study the problem of anonymizing the underlying graph of interactions in a social network. We call a graph (k,l)-anonymous if for every node in the graph there exist at…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-11-03 Tomas Feder , Shubha U. Nabar , Evimaria Terzi

Social networks may contain privacy-sensitive information about individuals. The objective of the network anonymization problem is to alter a given social network dataset such that the number of anonymous nodes in the social graph is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Samuel Bonello , Rachel G. de Jong , Thomas H. W. Bäck , Frank W. Takes

A growing body of research leverages social network based trust relationships to improve the functionality of the system. However, these systems expose users' trust relationships, which is considered sensitive information in today's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Prateek Mittal , Charalampos Papamanthou , Dawn Song

The popularity of online social media platforms provides an unprecedented opportunity to study real-world complex networks of interactions. However, releasing this data to researchers and the public comes at the cost of potentially exposing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Luca Rossi , Mirco Musolesi , Andrea Torsello

We address the problem of social network de-anonymization when relationships between people are described by scale-free graphs. In particular, we propose a rigorous, asymptotic mathematical analysis of the network de-anonymization problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Carla Chiasserini , Michele Garetto , Emilio Leonardi

Active re-identification attacks pose a serious threat to privacy-preserving social graph publication. Active attackers create fake accounts to build structural patterns in social graphs which can be used to re-identify legitimate users on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xihui Chen , Ema Këpuska , Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz

To date publish of a giant social network jointly from different parties is an easier collaborative approach. Agencies and researchers who collect such social network data often have a compelling interest in allowing others to analyze the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Ajay Prasad , G. K. Panda , A. Mitra , Arjun Singh , Deepak Gour

The increasing capabilities of deep neural networks for re-identification, combined with the rise in public surveillance in recent years, pose a substantial threat to individual privacy. Event cameras were initially considered as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Nicole Thiemer , Karen Joisten , Didier Stricker

In this paper, we study the problem of early detection of fake user accounts on social networks based solely on their network connectivity with other users. Removing such accounts is a core task for maintaining the integrity of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Adam Breuer , Roee Eilat , Udi Weinsberg

Social network based trust relationships present a critical foundation for designing trustworthy systems, such as Sybil defenses, secure routing, and anonymous/censorshipresilient communications. A key issue in the design of such systems,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Changhchang Liu , Prateek Mittal

Online social networks are being increasingly used for analyzing various societal phenomena such as epidemiology, information dissemination, marketing and sentiment flow. Popular analysis techniques such as clustering and influential node…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Faraz Ahmed , Rong Jin , Alex X. Liu

Social media users generate tremendous amounts of data. To better serve users, it is required to share the user-related data among researchers, advertisers and application developers. Publishing such data would raise more concerns on user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Ghazaleh Beigi , Kai Shu , Yanchao Zhang , Huan Liu

Online Social Networks are becoming the most important "places" where people share information about their lives. With the increasing concern that users have about privacy, most social networks offer ways to control the privacy of the user.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Andrea Burattin , Giuseppe Cascavilla , Mauro Conti

This work focuses on showing some arguments addressed to dismantle the extended idea about that social networks completely lacks of privacy properties. We consider the so-called active attacks to the privacy of social networks and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Serafino Cicerone , Gabriele Di Stefano , Sandi Klavžar , Ismael G. Yero

We investigate the problem of sybil (fake account) detection in social networks from a graph algorithms perspective, where graph structural information is used to classify users as sybil and benign. We introduce the novel notion of user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ali Safarpoor Dehkordi , Ahad N. Zehmakan

Social graphs are widely used in research (e.g., epidemiology) and business (e.g., recommender systems). However, sharing these graphs poses privacy risks because they contain sensitive information about individuals. Graph anonymization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Isabel Wagner , Yuchen Zhao

In recent years, there has been a growing effort to develop effective and efficient algorithms for fake account detection in online social networks. This survey comprehensively reviews existing methods, with a focus on graph-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ali Safarpoor Dehkordi , Ahad N. Zehmakan

With billions of personal images being generated from social media and cameras of all sorts on a daily basis, security and privacy are unprecedentedly challenged. Although extensive attempts have been made, existing face image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Tao Li , Lei Lin

People today typically use multiple online social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.). Each online network represents a subset of their "real" ego-networks. An interesting and challenging problem is to reconcile these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Nitish Korula , Silvio Lattanzi