Anonymization Techniques for Privacy Preservation in Social Networks: A Review

Abstract

Any data that user creates or owns is known as the user's data (For example: Name, USN, Phone number, address, email Id). As the number of users in social networks are increasing day by day the data generated by the user's is also increasing. Network providers will publish the data to others for analysis with hope that mining will provide additional functionality to their users or produce useful results that they can share with others. The analysis of social networks is used in modern sociology, geography, economics and information science as well as in various fields. Publicizing the original data of social networks for analysis raises issues of confidentiality, the adversary can search for documented threats such as identity theft, digital harassment and personalized spam. The published data may contain some sensitive information of individuals which must not be disclosed for this reason social network data must be anonymized before it is published. To do the data in nominate the anonymization technique should be applied, to preserve the privacy of data in the social network in a manner that preserves the privacy of the user whose records are being published while maintaining the published dataset rich enough to allow for the exploration of data. In order to address the issue of privacy protection, we first describe the concept of k-anonymity and illustrate different approaches for its enforcement. We then discuss how the privacy requirements characterized by k-anonymity can be violated in data mining and introduce possible approaches to ensure the satisfaction of k-anonymity in data mining also several attacks on dataset are discussed.