Utility-Oriented K-Anonymization on Social Networks

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Articulation Point Based Quasi Identifier Detection for Privacy Preserving in Distributed Environment

These days, huge data size requires high-end resources to be stored in IT organizations premises. They depend on cloud for additional resource necessities. Since cloud is a third-party, we cannot guarantee high security for our information as it might be misused. This necessitates the need of privacy in data before sharing to the cloud. Numerous specialists proposed several methods, wherein they attempt to discover explicit identifiers and sensitive data before distributing it. But, quasi-identifiers are attributes which can spill data of explicit identifiers utilizing background knowledge. Analysts proposed strategies to find quasi- identifiers with the goal that these properties can likewise be considered for implementing privacy. But, these techniques suffer from many drawbacks like higher time consumption and extract more quasi identifiers which decreases data utility. The proposed work overcomes this drawback by extracting minimum required quasi attributes with minimum time complexity

A Novel Graph-modification Technique for User Privacy-preserving on Social Networks, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2019, nr 3

The growing popularity of social networks and the increasing need for publishing related data mean that protection of privacy becomes an important and challenging problem in social networks. This paper describes the (k,l k,l k,l)-anonymity model used for social network graph anonymization. The method is based on edge addition and is utility-aware, i.e. it is designed to generate a graph that is similar to the original one. Different strategies are evaluated to this end and the results are compared based on common utility metrics. The outputs confirm that the na¨ıve idea of adding some random or even minimum number of possible edges does not always produce useful anonymized social network graphs, thus creating some interesting alternatives for graph anonymization techniques

A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis on Social Network Anonymization: Current Approaches and Future Directions

In recent decades, social network anonymization has become a crucial research field due to its pivotal role in preserving users' privacy. However, the high diversity of approaches introduced in relevant studies poses a challenge to gaining a profound understanding of the field. In response to this, the current study presents an exhaustive and well-structured bibliometric analysis of the social network anonymization field. To begin our research, related studies from the period of 2007-2022 were collected from the Scopus Database then pre-processed. Following this, the VOSviewer was used to visualize the network of authors' keywords. Subsequently, extensive statistical and network analyses were performed to identify the most prominent keywords and trending topics. Additionally, the application of co-word analysis through SciMAT and the Alluvial diagram allowed us to explore the themes of social network anonymization and scrutinize their evolution over time. These analyses culminated in an innovative taxonomy of the existing approaches and anticipation of potential trends in this domain. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first bibliometric analysis in the social network anonymization field, which offers a deeper understanding of the current state and an insightful roadmap for future research in this domain.Comment: 73 pages, 28 figure

Privacy-preserving mechanism for social network data publishing

 Privacy is receiving growing concern from various parties especially consumers due to the simplification of the collection and distribution of personal data. This research focuses on preserving privacy in social network data publishing. The study explores the data anonymization mechanism in order to improve privacy protection of social network users. We identified new type of privacy breach and has proposed an effective mechanism for privacy protection