Title
Social Media account linkage using user-generated geo-location data
Abstract
Since cyber offenders often create multiple accounts on different Social Media Platforms (SMPs) to serve their disparate malicious intentions, law enforcement agency investigators often encounter the task of recognizing all the accounts used by the same person across SMPs, i.e., account linkage (AL). Although a number of techniques have been proposed for AL, their performance may be degraded by factors such as information asymmetry, poor data quality, data unavailability, as well as application scope limitation. In this paper, we solve AL in an unsupervised manner by utilizing user-generated geo-location data in SMPs, which is more robust than common clues used in existing techniques. A co-clustering-based AL framework is proposed in which account clusterings in temporal and spatial dimensions are carried out synchronously and enhance the results of each other. Experiments carried out on a real-world dataset demonstrate the feasibility and validity of the proposed framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ISI.2016.7745460
2016 IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social media,Account linkage,Co-clustering,Geo-location,Criminal investigation
Data mining,Scope limitation,Information asymmetry,Social media,Data quality,Computer security,Computer science,Geolocation,Robustness (computer science),Unavailability,Law enforcement
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-3866-4
2
0.36
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaohui Han120.36
Lianhai Wang2182.69
Lijuan Xu373.64
Shuihui Zhang420.36