Anonymisation in social network: a literature survey and classification

摘要

Social network has got its importance in current developing society as it is able to bring people close to each other. The closeness which is achieved has its own advantages and disadvantages in term of security breach which can be due to many reasons. We as authors had surveyed the various anonymisation techniques which are applied on social network for privacy preservation which is the need of today's social network setup. We had done an in-depth study of existing literature from various known international journal papers to come up with a framework which will help the various researchers to focus on specific and emerging areas in the field of applying the anonymisation in privacy preservation in social network.