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

Posted by cos on Friday March 27, 2009 @12:15PM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.

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

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Re:By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify user... by randomwalker on Friday March 27, 2009 @03:24PM (#535593)

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

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Re:By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify user... by markup on Friday March 27, 2009 @04:20PM (#535667)

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

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Re:By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify user... by cos on Friday March 27, 2009 @08:31PM (#535956)

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.

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Re:By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify user... by Dilpil on Friday March 27, 2009 @03:30PM (#535607)

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

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Re:By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify user... by chanux on Friday March 27, 2009 @12:55PM (#535360)

Privacy on pyre.

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