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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Main Authors: Rachel G. de Jong, Mark P. J. van der Loo, Frank W. Takes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50617-z