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A firm seeks to analyze a dataset and to release the results. The dataset contains information about individual people, and the firm is subject to some regulation that forbids the release of the dataset itself. The regulation also imposes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Aloni Cohen , Micah Altman , Francesca Falzon , Evangelina Anna Markatou , Kobbi Nissim

We explore some novel connections between the main privacy models in use and we recall a few known ones. We show these models to be more related than commonly understood, around two main principles: deniability and permutation. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Jordi Soria-Comas

This work introduces an anonymization scheme for a corpus of texts to safeguard metadata from disclosure. It specifically aims to prevent large language models from identifying metadata associated with texts, thereby avoiding their…

Applications · Statistics 2025-05-28 Jan Greve , Lukas Sablica

The purpose of anonymizing structured data is to protect the privacy of individuals in the data while retaining the statistical properties of the data. There is a large body of work that examines anonymization vulnerabilities. Focusing on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Paul Francis , David Wagner

Recently introduced privacy legislation has aimed to restrict and control the amount of personal data published by companies and shared to third parties. Much of this real data is not only sensitive requiring anonymization, but also…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mostafa Milani , Yu Huang , Fei Chiang

Anonymization of graph-based data is a problem which has been widely studied over the last years and several anonymization methods have been developed. Information loss measures have been used to evaluate data utility and information loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Jordi Casas-Roma

Companies are looking to data anonymization research $\unicode{x2013}$ including differential private and synthetic data methods $\unicode{x2013}$ for simple and straightforward compliance solutions. But data anonymization has not taken off…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Matthew J. Schneider , James Bailie , Dawn Iacobucci

The growing use of voice user interfaces has led to a surge in the collection and storage of speech data. While data collection allows for the development of efficient tools powering most speech services, it also poses serious privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Pierre Champion

Data protection algorithms are becoming increasingly important to support modern business needs for facilitating data sharing and data monetization. Anonymization is an important step before data sharing. Several organizations leverage on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Manish Kesarwani , Akshar Kaul , Stefano Braghin , Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos

Sharing or publishing social network data while accounting for privacy of individuals is a difficult task due to the interconnectedness of nodes in networks. A key question in k-anonymity, a widely studied notion of privacy, is how to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

Providing public access to unprotected digital data can pose a threat of unwanted disclosing the restricted information. The problem of protecting such information can be divided into two main subclasses, namely, individual and group data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-05 Oleg Chertov , Dan Tavrov

In this work, we focus on protection against identity disclosure in the publication of sparse multidimensional data. Existing multidimensional anonymization techniquesa) protect the privacy of users either by altering the set of…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Manolis Terrovitis , John Liagouris , Nikos Mamoulis , Spiros Skiadopoulos

Data collected nowadays by social-networking applications create fascinating opportunities for building novel services, as well as expanding our understanding about social structures and their dynamics. Unfortunately, publishing…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Paolo Boldi , Francesco Bonchi , Aris Gionis , Tamir Tassa

Organizations are collecting vast amounts of data, but they often lack the capabilities needed to fully extract insights. As a result, they increasingly share data with external experts, such as analysts or researchers, to gain value from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yusi Wei , Hande Y. Benson , Joseph K. Agor , Muge Capan

Anonymization is a foundational principle of data privacy regulation, yet its practical application remains riddled with ambiguity and inconsistency. This paper introduces the concept of anonymity-washing -- the misrepresentation of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Szivia Lestyán , William Letrone , Ludovica Robustelli , Gergely Biczók

Open science is a fundamental pillar to promote scientific progress and collaboration, based on the principles of open data, open source and open access. However, the requirements for publishing and sharing open data are in many cases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García

Over the last decade, proliferation of various online platforms and their increasing adoption by billions of users have heightened the privacy risk of a user enormously. In fact, security researchers have shown that sparse microdata…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Baichuan Zhang , Noman Mohammed , Vachik Dave , Mohammad Al Hasan

With the rapidly increasing ability to collect and analyze personal data, data privacy becomes an emerging concern. In this work, we develop a new statistical notion of local privacy to protect each categorical data that will be collected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ganghua Wang , Jie Ding

System logs constitute valuable information for analysis and diagnosis of system behavior. The size of parallel computing systems and the number of their components steadily increase. The volume of generated logs by the system is in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Siavash Ghiasvand , Florina M. Ciorba

Anonymizing textual documents is a highly context-sensitive problem: the appropriate balance between privacy protection and utility preservation varies with the data domain, privacy objectives, and downstream application. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Gabriel Loiseau , Damien Sileo , Damien Riquet , Maxime Meyer , Marc Tommasi