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15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Disclosure Risk Measures for Microdata
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
July 09-July 11
ISBN: 0-7695-1964-4
Traian Marius Truta, Wayne State University
Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University
Daniel Barth-Jones, Wayne State University
In this paper, we define several disclosure risk measures for microdata. We will analyze disclosure risk based on the disclosure control techniques applied to initial microdata. Disclosure Control is the discipline concerned with the modification of data containing confidential information about individual entities, such as persons, households, businesses, etc. in order to prevent third parties working with these data from recognizing entities in the data and thereby disclosing information about these entities. In very broad terms, disclosure risk is the risk that a given form of disclosure will occur if a masked microdataset is released. Microdata represents a series of records, each record containing information on an individual unit. The disclosure risk measures presented in this paper are validated in our experiments.
Citation:
Traian Marius Truta, Farshad Fotouhi, Daniel Barth-Jones, "Disclosure Risk Measures for Microdata," ssdbm, pp.15, 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2003
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