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Ensuring privacy of individuals is of paramount importance to social network analysis research. Previous work assessed anonymity in a network based on the non-uniqueness of a node's ego network. In this work, we show that this approach does…

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In this work, inspired by secret sharing schemes, we introduce a privacy-preserving approach for network consensus, by which all nodes in a network can reach an agreement on their states without exposing the individual state to neighbors.…

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As network data has become increasingly prevalent, a substantial amount of attention has been paid to the privacy issue in publishing network data. One of the critical challenges for data publishers is to preserve the topological structures…

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Collaborative graph analysis across multiple institutions is becoming increasingly popular. Realistic examples include social network analysis across various social platforms, financial transaction analysis across multiple banks, and…

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Companies are looking to data anonymization research $\unicode{x2013}$ including differential private and synthetic data methods $\unicode{x2013}$ for simple and straightforward compliance solutions. But data anonymization has not taken off…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Matthew J. Schneider , James Bailie , Dawn Iacobucci

In this paper, we cast the classic problem of achieving k-anonymity for a given database as a problem in algebraic topology. Using techniques from this field of mathematics, we propose a framework for k-anonymity that brings new insights…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Alberto Speranzon , Shaunak D. Bopardikar

Local differential privacy (LDP) can be adopted to anonymize richer user data attributes that will be input to sophisticated machine learning (ML) tasks. However, today's LDP approaches are largely task-agnostic and often lead to severe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiangnan Cheng , Ao Tang , Sandeep Chinchali

De-identification of face data has drawn increasing attention in recent years. It is important to protect people's identities meanwhile keeping the utility of the data in many computer vision tasks. We propose a Controllable Face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tianxiang Ma , Dongze Li , Wei Wang , Jing Dong

In this work, we focus on protection against identity disclosure in the publication of sparse multidimensional data. Existing multidimensional anonymization techniquesa) protect the privacy of users either by altering the set of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Manolis Terrovitis , John Liagouris , Nikos Mamoulis , Spiros Skiadopoulos

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

Differentially private GNNs (Graph Neural Networks) have been recently studied to provide high accuracy in various tasks on graph data while strongly protecting user privacy. In particular, a recent study proposes an algorithm to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Seira Hidano , Takao Murakami

Considering topologies of anonymous networks we used to organizing anonymous communication into hard to trace paths hiding its origin or destination. In anonymity the company is crucial, however the serial transportation imposes a costly…

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The popularity of federated learning comes from the possibility of better scalability and the ability for participants to keep control of their data, improving data security and sovereignty. Unfortunately, sharing model updates also creates…

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Identifying anomaly multimedia traffic in cyberspace is a big challenge in distributed service systems, multiple generation networks and future internet of everything. This letter explores meta-generalization for a multiparty privacy…

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Privacy scoring aims at measuring the privacy violation risk of a user over an online social network (OSN). Existing work in the field rely on possibly biased or emotional survey data and focus only on personel purpose OSNs like Facebook.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yasir Kilic

In this work, we propose a profile matching (or deanonymization) attack for unstructured online social networks (OSNs) in which similarity in graphical structure cannot be used for profile matching. We consider different attributes that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anisa Halimi , Erman Ayday

The primary objective of an anonymity tool is to protect the anonymity of its users through the implementation of strong encryption and obfuscation techniques. As a result, it becomes very difficult to monitor and identify users activities…

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Privacy policy documents are often lengthy, complex, and difficult for non-expert users to interpret, leading to a lack of transparency regarding the collection, processing, and sharing of personal data. As concerns over online privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Vijayalakshmi Ramasamy , Seth Barrett , Gokila Dorai , Jessica Zumbach

As machine learning becomes more widely used for critical applications, the need to study its implications in privacy turns to be urgent. Given access to the target model and auxiliary information, the model inversion attack aims to infer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Zhenya Huang , Hao Wang , Chengqiang Lu , Chuanren Liu , Enhong Chen