Sunday, March 29, 2009

De-Anonymizing Social Networks

Here is interesting but scary study on how to de-anonymize social network data. It's cool, powerful, and frightening.

Note additionally that there are multiple sides to the implications of such methods: Besides pure privacy issues, there are also the privacy issues that are conjoined with the increasing number of anonymized data sets that are being analyzed by scientists like me.

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