TY - GEN
T1 - The Uncertainty of Identity Toolset: Analysing digital traces for user profiling
AU - Adnan, Muhammad
AU - Lima, Antonio
AU - Rossi, Luca
AU - Veluru, Suresh
AU - Longley, Paul
AU - Musolesi, Mirco
AU - Rajarajan, Muttukrishnan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2014 ACM.
PY - 2014/9/9
Y1 - 2014/9/9
N2 - People manage a spectrum of identities in cyber domains. Profiling individuals and assigning them to distinct groups or classes have potential applications in targeted services, online fraud detection, extensive social sorting, and cyber-security. This paper presents the Uncertainty of Identity Toolset, a framework for the identification and profiling of users from their social media accounts and e-mail addresses. More specifically, in this paper we discuss the design and implementation of two tools of the framework. The Twitter Geographic Profiler tool builds a map of the ethno-cultural communities of a person's friends on Twitter social media service. The E-mail Address Profiler tool identifies the probable identities of individuals from their e-mail addresses and maps their geographical distribution across the UK. To this end, this paper presents a framework for profiling the digital traces of individuals.
AB - People manage a spectrum of identities in cyber domains. Profiling individuals and assigning them to distinct groups or classes have potential applications in targeted services, online fraud detection, extensive social sorting, and cyber-security. This paper presents the Uncertainty of Identity Toolset, a framework for the identification and profiling of users from their social media accounts and e-mail addresses. More specifically, in this paper we discuss the design and implementation of two tools of the framework. The Twitter Geographic Profiler tool builds a map of the ethno-cultural communities of a person's friends on Twitter social media service. The E-mail Address Profiler tool identifies the probable identities of individuals from their e-mail addresses and maps their geographical distribution across the UK. To this end, this paper presents a framework for profiling the digital traces of individuals.
KW - Geographic distribution
KW - Identity
KW - Online social networks
KW - Substring matching
KW - Suffix tree
KW - Twitter
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84938698774&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2659651.2659741
DO - 10.1145/2659651.2659741
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:84938698774
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 254
EP - 260
BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2014
A2 - Poet, Ron
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, SIN 2014
Y2 - 9 September 2014 through 11 September 2014
ER -