By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify users from anonymous data.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7967648.stm

by cos • 17 years ago

23 5 17 years ago

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chanux• 17 years ago

Privacy on pyre.

This is my work with my advisor. Our paper is online, take a look if you're interested. http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/ We also have an FAQ that answers the common misconceptions: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/socialnetworks-faq.html

markup• 17 years ago

I posted your paper yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534399), no one seemed to bother... I am guessing bbc is sexier or something.

I really enjoyed it

cos• 17 years ago

I think it may just be because the title "De-anonymizing social networks" didn't actually convey what the experiment found, and it's the result (as communicated in the title here) that got people interested enough to click.

Dilpil• 17 years ago

This seemed likely to many graph theorists. Glad someone proved it.

By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify users from anonymous data.

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