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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

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…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Philip S. Yu

Machine learning models have recently enjoyed a significant increase in size and popularity. However, this growth has created concerns about dataset privacy. To counteract data leakage, various privacy frameworks guarantee that the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Coleman DuPlessie , Aidan Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated advanced capabilities in both text generation and comprehension, and their application to data archives might facilitate the privatization of sensitive information about the data subjects. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Stefano Cirillo , Domenico Desiato , Giuseppe Polese , Monica Maria Lucia Sebillo , Giandomenico Solimando

It is well recognised that data mining and statistical analysis pose a serious treat to privacy. This is true for financial, medical, criminal and marketing research. Numerous techniques have been proposed to protect privacy, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Mousa Alfalayleh , Ljiljana Brankovic

To address increasing societal concerns regarding privacy and climate, the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and committed to the Green Deal. Considerable research studied the energy efficiency of software and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Pepijn de Reus , Ana Oprescu , Koen van Elsen

An important issue in releasing individual data is to protect the sensitive information from being leaked and maliciously utilized. Famous privacy preserving principles that aim to ensure both data privacy and data integrity, such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Hongyu Liang , Hao Yuan

In medical organizations large amount of personal data are collected and analyzed by the data miner or researcher, for further perusal. However, the data collected may contain sensitive information such as specific disease of a patient and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Pawan R Bhaladhare , Devesh Jinwala

Recently, the permutation paradigm has been proposed in data anonymization to describe any micro data masking method as permutation, paving the way for performing meaningful analytical comparisons of methods, something that is difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Nicolas Ruiz

While personalized recommendations systems have become increasingly popular, ensuring user data protection remains a top concern in the development of these learning systems. A common approach to enhancing privacy involves training models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including attacks that leak information about the model's training data. There has recently been an increase in interest about how to best address privacy concerns, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Keltin Grimes , Collin Abidi , Cole Frank , Shannon Gallagher

Huge volume of data from domain specific applications such as medical, financial, telephone, shopping records and individuals are regularly generated. Sharing of these data is proved to be beneficial for data mining application. Since data…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-03-21 Hitesh Chhinkaniwala , Sanjay Garg

Smart cities, which can monitor the real world and provide smart services in a variety of fields, have improved people's living standards as urbanization has accelerated. However, there are security and privacy concerns because smart city…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jing Jia , Kenta Saito , Hiroaki Nishi

Today, the publication of microdata poses a privacy threat. Vast research has striven to define the privacy condition that microdata should satisfy before it is released, and devise algorithms to anonymize the data so as to achieve this…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Jianneng Cao , Panagiotis Karras

Data sharing between different organizations is an essential process in today's connected world. However, recently there were many concerns about data sharing as sharing sensitive information can jeopardize users' privacy. To preserve the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Abdelrahman Eldosouky , Tapadhir Das , Anuraag Kotra , Shamik Sengupta

We study a class of private learning problems in which the data is a join of private and public features. This is often the case in private personalization tasks such as recommendation or ad prediction, in which features related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Walid Krichene , Nicolas Mayoraz , Steffen Rendle , Shuang Song , Abhradeep Thakurta , Li Zhang

The problem of publishing personal data without giving up privacy is becoming increasingly important. An interesting formalization that has been recently proposed is the $k$-anonymity. This approach requires that the rows of a table are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Stefano Beretta , Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Riccardo Dondi , Yuri Pirola

This paper analyzes k nearest neighbor classification with training data anonymized using anatomy. Anatomy preserves all data values, but introduces uncertainty in the mapping between identifying and sensitive values. We first study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-30 Koray Mancuhan , Chris Clifton

Machine learning poses severe privacy concerns as it has been shown that the learned models can reveal sensitive information about their training data. Many works have investigated the effect of widely adopted data augmentation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiao Li , Qiongxiu Li , Zhanhao Hu , Xiaolin Hu

Differential privacy has emerged as the most studied framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. However, recent studies show that enforcing differential privacy guarantees can not only significantly degrade the utility of the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kai Yao , Marc Juarez