Protecting Privacy from Social Network Structure-based Inference
Currently, no social network services implement any privacy evaluation, alert, and recommendation techniques that could help end users easily evaluate and manage the level to which their private information is revealed. Neither does any personal software tool exist on the market that provides such functionality.
For the end user: implementation in a personal privacy management and advising software tool For an online social networking provider: provide privacy evaluation as part of its service to end users For a product recommender: based on a users interest on the set of attributes for a given product, using the social relationships among friends to infer which of his friends will also be interested in this product.
The invention uses a method to infer with a high degree of accuracy personal information based on social networks.
Patent Number: US8160993B2
Application Number: US2008124640A
Inventor: Chu, Wesley W. | He, Jianming | Liu, Zhenyu
Priority Date: 22 May 2007
Priority Number: US8160993B2
Application Date: 21 May 2008
Publication Date: 17 Apr 2012
IPC Current: G06N000504
US Class: 706055
Assignee Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
Title: System and methods for evaluating inferences of unknown attributes in a social network
Usefulness: System and methods for evaluating inferences of unknown attributes in a social network
Novelty: Method of determining conditional probability of inference of unknown attribute in online social network, involves creating simplified network using input attribute values and relationships which are received fro additional nodes
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State of Development The concept has been developed and results of the experiment have been published. Background Recent years have seen a huge growth in online social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster. Given the huge amount of personal data and social relationships available in online social networks, protecting ones personal privacy is a growing problem. Since private information can be inferred via social relationships, it is possible to infer private information even when such information is not shared. Additional Technologies by these Inventors Tech ID/UC Case 20243/2007-626-0 Related Cases 2007-626-0
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