In this paper, we focus on the problem of preserving the privacy of sensitive relationships in graph data. We refer to the
problem of inferring sensitive relationships from anonymized graph data as link re-identification. We propose five different privacy preservation strategies, which vary in terms of the amount of data removed (and hence
their utility) and the amount of privacy preserved. We assume the adversary has an accurate predictive model for links, and
we show experimentally the success of different link re-identification strategies under varying structural characteristics
of the data.
Keywords privacy - anonymization - identification - link mining - social network analysis - noisy-or - graph data