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Privacy issues in social networks and analysis: a comprehensive survey
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posted on 2018-03-01, 00:00 authored by V V H Pham, Shui Yu, Keshav SoodKeshav Sood, Lei CuiSocial networks have become part of today's life; however, they also create numerous privacy problems for their users as they reveal sensitive information. Thus, the privacy preservation has become a big problem in social networks and there are several researches related to this topic. However, the current research achievements for this issue are only ad hoc solutions and the broad picture of the problem is not clear. This paper surveys a wide range of related researches and realises that the topic includes many sub-areas; for example, the privacy in publishing social network data for the use of third-party consumers or the privacy of users in the leakage of individuals' information to unexpected people in their social circle. The study also analyses the advantages as well as limitations of proposed solutions. On the basis of that the research outlines key outstanding issues and recommends directions for the future research. Moreover, the research also investigates common privacy metrics and popular privacy-preserving techniques to provide readers some basic tools to resolve open problems in the topic. The ultimate purpose of this research is to pave a solid background for people, who are interested in the topic, to do research further.
History
Journal
IET networksVolume
7Issue
2Season
Special issue: security architecture and technologies for 5GPagination
74 - 84Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics EngineersLocation
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
ISSN
2047-4954eISSN
2047-4962Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2017, The Institution of Engineering and TechnologyUsage metrics
Keywords
data privacysecurity of datasocial networkingScience & TechnologyTechnologyComputer Science, Information SystemsComputer Sciencesocial networking (online)privacy issuesprivacy problemspersonal datasocial network data publishingindividuals information leakagesocial circlecommon privacy metricsprivacy-preserving techniquesSECURITYIDENTITYDistributed Computing