Computer Science – Databases
Scientific paper
2009-05-12
Computer Science
Databases
11 pages
Scientific paper
Group based anonymization is the most widely studied approach for privacy preserving data publishing. This includes k-anonymity, l-diversity, and t-closeness, to name a few. The goal of this paper is to raise a fundamental issue on the privacy exposure of the current group based approach. This has been overlooked in the past. The group based anonymization approach basically hides each individual record behind a group to preserve data privacy. If not properly anonymized, patterns can actually be derived from the published data and be used by the adversary to breach individual privacy. For example, from the medical records released, if patterns such as people from certain countries rarely suffer from some disease can be derived, then the information can be used to imply linkage of other people in an anonymized group with this disease with higher likelihood. We call the derived patterns from the published data the foreground knowledge. This is in contrast to the background knowledge that the adversary may obtain from other channels as studied in some previous work. Finally, we show by experiments that the attack is realistic in the privacy benchmark dataset under the traditional group based anonymization approach.
Fu Ada Wai-Chee
Wang Ke
Wong Raymond Chi-Wing
Xu Yadong
Yu Philip S.
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