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Australia is among the leading countries that envisaged releasing unclassified public data under open license and reusable format with no further restriction on re/use. But, according to the Australian Information Commissioner John…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Mohamamd Hossain , Caroline Chan

Objective: Patient notes in electronic health records (EHRs) may contain critical information for medical investigations. However, the vast majority of medical investigators can only access de-identified notes, in order to protect the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Franck Dernoncourt , Ji Young Lee , Ozlem Uzuner , Peter Szolovits

This paper takes on the problem of automatically identifying clinically-relevant patterns in medical datasets without compromising patient privacy. To achieve this goal, we treat datasets as a black box for both internal and external users…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Nafees Qamar , Yilong Yang , Andras Nadas , Zhiming Liu , Janos Sztipanovits

Effective healthcare delivery depends on accurate longitudinal health records and addressing patients' concerns regarding the privacy of their information. While patient authentication is essential, reusing patient identifiers exposes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Nasif Muslim , Jean-Charles Grégoire

With large volumes of detailed health care data being collected, there is a high demand for the release of this data for research purposes. Hospitals and organizations are faced with conflicting interests of releasing this data and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-27 William Lee Croft , Wei Shi , Jorg-Rudiger Sack , Jean-Pierre Corriveau

Privacy is a major good for users of personalized services such as recommender systems. When applied to the field of health informatics, privacy concerns of users may be amplified, but the possible utility of such services is also high.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-14 André Calero Valdez , Martina Ziefle

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

Social media plays an important role for a vast majority in one's internet life. Likewise, sharing, publishing and posting content through social media became nearly effortless. This unleashes new threats as unintentionally shared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Stefan Kutschera

Anonymity of both natural and legal persons in court rulings is a critical aspect of privacy protection in the European Union and Switzerland. With the advent of LLMs, concerns about large-scale re-identification of anonymized persons are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Alex Nyffenegger , Matthias Stürmer , Joel Niklaus

The identity problem today is a data-sharing problem. Today the fixed attributes approach adopted by the consumer identity management industry provides only limited information about an individual, and therefore is of limited value to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Thomas Hardjono , Sandy Pentland

Today's age of data holds high potential to enhance the way we pursue and monitor progress in the fields of development and humanitarian action. We study the relation between data utility and privacy risk in large-scale behavioral data,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Alejandro Noriega-Campero , Alex Rutherford , Oren Lederman , Yves A. de Montjoye , Alex Pentland

In order to increase the value of scientific datasets and improve research outcomes, it is important that only trustworthy data is used. This paper presents mechanisms by which scientists and the organisations they represent can certify the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Iain Barclay , Swapna Radha , Alun Preece , Ian Taylor , Jarek Nabrzyski

Person re-identification (re-ID) plays an important role in applications such as public security and video surveillance. Recently, learning from synthetic data, which benefits from the popularity of synthetic data engine, have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Suncheng Xiang , Yuzhuo Fu , Guanjie You , Ting Liu

Remote healthcare technology can help tackle societal issues by improving access to quality healthcare services and enhancing diagnoses through in-place monitoring. These services can be implemented through a combination of mobile devices,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniela Napoli , Heather Molyneaux , Helene Fournier , Sonia Chiasson

Data anonymization is an approach to privacy-preserving data release aimed at preventing participants reidentification, and it is an important alternative to differential privacy in applications that cannot tolerate noisy data. Existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Robert Busa-Fekete , Lee M. Gunderson , Andrés Munõz Medina , Umar Syed

As we shift more of our lives into the virtual domain, the volume of data shared on the web keeps increasing and presents a threat to our privacy. This works contributes to the understanding of privacy implications of such data sharing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Seong Joon Oh , Rodrigo Benenson , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Sharing medical datasets between hospitals is challenging because of the privacy-protection problem and the massive cost of transmitting and storing many high-resolution medical images. However, dataset distillation can synthesize a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Guang Li , Ren Togo , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Ideally person re-identification seeks for perfect feature representation and metric model that re-identify all various pedestrians well in non-overlapping views at different locations with different camera configurations, which is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Chen Chen , Min Cao , Xiyuan Hu , Silong Peng

Patient-controlled data-sharing systems are increasingly promoted as a way to empower patients with greater autonomy over their health data. Yet it remains unclear how different stakeholders, especially patients and health system leaders,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xi Lu , Di Hu , An T. Nguyen , Brad Morse , Lisa M. Schilling , Kai Zheng , Michelle S. Keller , Lucila Ohno-Machado , Yunan Chen

The digitization of medical records ushered in a new era of big data to clinical science, and with it the possibility that data could be shared, to multiply insights beyond what investigators could abstract from paper records. The need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ofer Mendelevitch , Michael D. Lesh