Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

37Data Security and Privacy

3.4 DATA PRIVACY

Data privacy is about protecting sensitive information of individuals. While different denitions of

privacy have been proposed, the most common denition is that a person decided what informa-

tion is to be released about him or her. While data privacy has been studied for decades, especially

with statistical databases, with the advent of the World Wide Web and the efforts on applying data

mining for counter-terrorism applications, there has been increasing interest in this topic during the

past 15 years. Much research has been reported on balancing the need between privacy and security.

The rst effort on privacy-preserving data mining was reported in Agrawal and Srikant (2000).

Several other ...