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Record linkage is the process of identifying records that refer to the same entities from several databases. This process is challenging because commonly no unique entity identifiers are available. Linkage therefore has to rely on partially…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Peter Christen

Record linkage seeks to merge databases and to remove duplicates when unique identifiers are not available. Most approaches use blocking techniques to reduce the computational complexity associated with record linkage. We review traditional…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Rebecca C. Steorts , Samuel L. Ventura , Mauricio Sadinle , Stephen E. Fienberg

With the rapid increase in computing, storage and networking resources, data is not only collected and stored, but also analyzed. This creates a serious privacy problem which often inhibits the use of this data. In this chapter, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Yuan Hong , Jaideep Vaidya , Nicholas Rizzo , Qi Liu

Differential privacy (DP) provides formal guarantees that the output of a database query does not reveal too much information about any individual present in the database. While many differentially private algorithms have been proposed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Royce J Wilson , Celia Yuxin Zhang , William Lam , Damien Desfontaines , Daniel Simmons-Marengo , Bryant Gipson

In the course of a survey of privacy-preserving record linkage, we reviewed the approach taken by the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) as described in their series of reports "Beyond 2011". Our review identifies a number of matters…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Chris Culnane , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Vanessa Teague

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi

Consider two parties who want to compare their strings, e.g., genomes, but do not want to reveal them to each other. We present a system for privacy-preserving matching of strings, which differs from existing systems by providing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Martin Beck , Florian Kerschbaum

Differential privacy is a rigorous mathematical framework for evaluating and protecting data privacy. In most existing studies, there is a vulnerable assumption that records in a dataset are independent when differential privacy is applied.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Renping Liu , Wanlei Zhou

With the generation of personal and medical data at several locations, medical data science faces unique challenges when working on distributed datasets. Growing data protection requirements in recent years drastically limit the use of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Maximilian Jugl , Sascha Welten , Yongli Mou , Yeliz Ucer Yediel , Oya Deniz Beyan , Ulrich Sax , Toralf Kirsten

Releasing Web query logs which contain valuable information for research or marketing, can breach the privacy of search engine users. Therefore rendering query logs to limit linking a query to an individual while preserving the data…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Amin Milani Fard

Privacy-preservation policies are guidelines formulated to protect data providers private data. Previous privacy-preservation methodologies have addressed privacy in which data are permanently stored in repositories and disconnected from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Michael Mireku Kwakye

The application and development of process mining techniques face significant challenges due to the lack of publicly available real-life event logs. One reason for companies to abstain from sharing their data are privacy and confidentiality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Fabian Haertel , Juergen Mangler , Nataliia Klievtsova , Celine Mader , Eugen Rigger , Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Answering database queries while preserving privacy is an important problem that has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. A canonical approach to this problem is to use synthetic data. That is, we replace the input…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Kuntai Cai , Xiaokui Xiao , Graham Cormode

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

The growing expanse of e-commerce and the widespread availability of online databases raise many fears regarding loss of privacy and many statistical challenges. Even with encryption and other nominal forms of protection for individual…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Stephen E. Fienberg

An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic database used by healthcare providers to store patients' medical records which may include diagnoses, treatments, costs, and other personal information. Machine learning (ML) algorithms can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Naif A. Ganadily , Han J. Xia

Data mining is the way toward mining fascinating patterns or information from an enormous level of the database. Data mining additionally opens another risk to privacy and data security.One of the maximum significant themes in the research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Dhinakaran D , Joe Prathap P. M

We study the problem of privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) for ensemble methods, focusing our effort on random forests. In collaborative analysis, PPML attempts to solve the conflict between the need for data sharing and privacy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Irene Giacomelli , Somesh Jha , Ross Kleiman , David Page , Kyonghwan Yoon

An increasing number of individuals are turning to Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing to learn about their predisposition to diseases, traits, and/or ancestry. DTC companies like 23andme and Ancestry.com have started to offer popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Emiliano De Cristofaro , Kaitai Liang , Yuruo Zhang

Given a query result of a big database, why-provenance can be used to calculate the necessary part of this database, consisting of so-called witnesses. If this database consists of personal data, privacy protection has to prevent the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tanja Auge , Nic Scharlau , Andreas Heuer