Structure Based Data De-Anonymization of Social Networks and Mobility Traces

Abstract

AbstractWe present a novel de-anonymization attack on mobility trace data and social data. First, we design an Unified Similarity (US) measurement, based on which we present a US based De-Anonymization (DA) framework which iteratively de-anonymizes data with an accuracy guarantee. Then, to de-anonymize data without the knowledge of the overlap size between the anonymized data and the auxiliary data, we generalize DA to an Adaptive De-Anonymization (ADA) framework. Finally, we examine DA/ADA on mobility traces and social data sets.