Data Anonymization for Privacy Protection

Social networks have become the universal consumer phenomena and have emerged with increasing popularity nowadays. The amount of network data grows enormously due to the increase of networking websites. The development of social networks has led to the increasing demand for the protection of privacy in publishing the social network data as the social network sites are accumulated with large amount of sensitive information of individuals. So preserving the privacy in publishing social network data has become an important concern these days. The recent rise in popularity of social networks has created large quantities of data about interactions. Such data may have many secret details about individuals so anonymization has to be done earlier to attempts to make the data more extensively available for scientific research. Data anonymization protects the sensitive information from unsolicited access and ensures privacy protection.