Database anonymization : privacy models, data utility, and microaggregation-based inter-model connections /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Domingo-Ferrer, Josep (Author), Sanchez, David (Author), Soria-Comas, Jordi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, 2016.
Series:Synthesis lectures on information security, privacy and trust ; # 15.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Abstract:The current social and economic context increasingly demands open data to improve scientific research and decision making. However, when published data refer to individual respondents, disclosure risk limitation techniques must be implemented to anonymize the data and guarantee by design the fundamental right to privacy of the subjects the data refer to. Disclosure risk limitation has a long record in the statistical and computer science research communities, who have developed a variety of privacy-preserving solutions for data releases. This Synthesis Lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of privacy in data releases focusing on the computer science perspective. Specifically, we detail the privacy models, anonymization methods, and utility and risk metrics that have been proposed so far in the literature. Besides, as a more advanced topic, we identify and discuss in detail connections between several privacy models (i.e., how to accumulate the privacy guarantees they offer to achieve more robust protection and when such guarantees are equivalent or complementary); we also explore the links between anonymization methods and privacy models (how anonymization methods can be used to enforce privacy models and thereby offer ex ante privacy guarantees). These latter topics are relevant to researchers and advanced practitioners, who will gain a deeper understanding on the available data anonymization solutions and the privacy guarantees they can offer.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 120 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-118).
ISBN:9781627058445
ISSN:1945-9750 ;
DOI:10.2200/S00690ED1V01Y201512SPT015
Access:Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.