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We propose sanitizer, a framework for secure and task-agnostic data release. While releasing datasets continues to make a big impact in various applications of computer vision, its impact is mostly realized when data sharing is not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Abhishek Singh , Ethan Garza , Ayush Chopra , Praneeth Vepakomma , Vivek Sharma , Ramesh Raskar

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

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

The scientific method presents a key challenge to privacy because it requires many samples to support a claim. When samples are commercially valuable or privacy-sensitive enough, their owners have strong reasons to avoid releasing them for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Andrew Trask , Kritika Prakash

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

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

Supply chain traceability systems have become central in many industries, however, traceability data is often commercially sensitive, and firms seek to keep it confidential to protect their competitive advantage. This is at odds with calls…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Rob Glew , Ralph Tröger , Sebastian E. Schmittner

Anonymizing sensitive information in user text is essential for privacy, yet existing methods often apply uniform treatment across attributes, which can conflict with communicative intent and obscure necessary information. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Weihao Shen , Yaxin Xu , Shuang Li , Wei Chen , Yuqin Lan , Meng Yuan , Fuzhen Zhuang

Synthcity is an open-source software package for innovative use cases of synthetic data in ML fairness, privacy and augmentation across diverse tabular data modalities, including static data, regular and irregular time series, data with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Zhaozhi Qian , Bogdan-Constantin Cebere , Mihaela van der Schaar

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

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

Data privacy is one of the key challenges faced by enterprises today. Anonymization techniques address this problem by sanitizing sensitive data such that individual privacy is preserved while allowing enterprises to maintain and share…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-02-08 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta , Raj Acharya

Most existing anonymization work has been done on static datasets, which have no update and need only one-time publication. Recent studies consider anonymizing dynamic datasets with external updates: the datasets are updated with record…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-07-24 Feng Li , Shuigeng Zhou

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

The increased use of text data in social science research has benefited from easy-to-access data (e.g., Twitter). That trend comes at the cost of research requiring sensitive but hard-to-share data (e.g., interview data, police reports,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Bennett Kleinberg , Toby Davies , Maximilian Mozes

Open science has become a synonym for modern, digital and inclusive science. Inclusion does not stop at open access. Inclusion also requires transparency through open datasets and the right and ability to take part in the knowledge creation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Patrick Wortner , Moritz Schubotz , Corinna Breitinger , Stephan Leible , Bela Gipp

The reproducibility of scientific research has become a point of critical concern. We argue that openness and transparency are critical for reproducibility, and we outline an ecosystem for open and transparent science that has emerged…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Russell A. Poldrack , Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski , Gael Varoquaux

An anonymization technique for databases is proposed that employs Principal Component Analysis. The technique aims at releasing the least possible amount of information, while preserving the utility of the data released in response to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Giuseppe D'Acquisto , Maurizio Naldi

Background knowledge is an important factor in privacy preserving data publishing. Distribution-based background knowledge is one of the well studied background knowledge. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Jian Pei , Philip S. Yu

This paper presents gnss_lib_py, a Python library used to parse, analyze, and visualize data from a variety of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) data sources. The gnss_lib_py library's ease of use, modular capabilities, testing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Derek Knowles , Ashwin Vivek Kanhere , Daniel Neamati , Grace Gao