Privacy Preserving Approaches for Online Social Network Data Publishing

Recently, the social network platforms have gained the attention of people worldwide. People post, share, and update their views freely on such platforms. The huge data contained on social networks are utilized for various purposes like research, market analysis, product popularity, prediction, etc. Although it provides so much useful information, it raises the issue regarding user privacy. This chapter discusses the various privacy preservation methods applied to the original social network dataset to preserve privacy against attacks. The two areas for privacy preservation approaches addressed in this chapter are anonymization in social network data publication and differential privacy in node degree publishing.