The effect of distant connections on node anonymity in complex networks
Abstract Ensuring privacy of individuals is of paramount importance to social network analysis research. Previous work assessed anonymity in a network based on the non-uniqueness of a node’s ego network. In this work, we show that this approach does not adequately account for the strong de-anonymizi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2024-01-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50617-z |