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δ-Presence Without Complete World Knowledge
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ISSN: 1041-4347
Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Sabanci University, Istanbul
Chris Clifton, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Advances in information technology, and its use in research, are increasing both the need for anonymized data and the risks of poor anonymization. Previous work presented a new privacy metric, δ-presence, that clearly links the quality of anonymization to the risk posed by inadequate anonymization. It was shown that existing anonymization techniques are inappropriate for situations where δ-presence is a good metric (specifically, where knowing an individual is in the database poses a privacy risk). This article addresses a practical problem with previous work, extending to situations where the data anonymizer is not assumed to have complete world knowledge. The algorithms are evaluated in the context of a real-world scenario, demonstrating practical applicability of the approach.
Index Terms:
Security, integrity, and protection, Privacy
Citation:
Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Chris Clifton, "δ-Presence Without Complete World Knowledge," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 04 May. 2009. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2009.125>
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