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How to Avoid Reidentification with Proper Anonymization

Cryptography and Security 2018-08-06 v1

Abstract

De Montjoye et al. claimed that most individuals can be reidentified from a deidentified transaction database and that anonymization mechanisms are not effective against reidentification. We demonstrate that anonymization can be performed by techniques well established in the literature.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.01113,
  title  = {How to Avoid Reidentification with Proper Anonymization},
  author = {David Sánchez and Sergio Martínez and Josep Domingo-Ferrer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01113},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages

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