Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

Section IV

Social Network Analytics

andPrivacy Considerations

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION IV

While Section III focused on social media analytics, in Section IV we will discuss the privacy

violations that can result from social media analytics. That is, an adversary can infer highly

private attributes of an individual from the public data he posts. Once we know that a social

network is vulnerable to such inference attacks, then we can explore ways to handle such a

problem.

Section IV consists of ve chapters: Chapters 14 through 18. Chapter 14 will begin with the

discussion of one of the early full-scale analysis of social networks with a focus on priv ...