• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1103-1110
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• 2013

This paper proposes a method of identifying ownership of personal information in Social Network Service. In detail, the proposed method automatically decides whether any location information mentioned in twitter indicates the publisher's residence area. Identifying ownership of personal information is necessary part of evaluating risk of opened personal information online. The proposed method uses a set of decision rules that considers 13 features that are lexicographic and syntactic characteristics of the tweet sentences. In an experiment using real twitter data, the proposed method shows better performance (f1-score: 0.876) than the conventional document classification models such as naive bayesian that uses n-gram as a feature set.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.977-983
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• 2013

This paper presents result of researching personal information exposure of Korean twitter and facebook users. Personally identifiable information such as e-mail and phone numer is exposed in the accounts less than 1%. However there are many cases that a person is identified by non personally identifiable information. For example, 350 thousands accounts are distinguished with other accounts because its name is unique. Using combination of information such as name and high school, we can distinguish 2.97 millions accounts. We also found 170 thousands account pairs that are candidate of one users' own account. Linkability between two accounts in two different domains means that the person is identified. Currently, only personally identifiable information is protected by policy. This paper shows that the policy has limited effects under the circumstances that a person can be identified by non personally identifiable information and the account linking is possible.