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The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

Over the recent years, the availability of datasets containing personal, but anonymized information has been continuously increasing. Extensive research has revealed that such datasets are vulnerable to privacy breaches: being able to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Alexandros Bampoulidis , Mihai Lupu

The protection of personal data has become a central topic in software development, especially with the implementation of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-25 André Menolli , Luiz Fernando Nunes , Thiago A. Coleti

Text anonymization is the process of removing or obfuscating information from textual data to protect the privacy of individuals. This process inherently involves a complex trade-off between privacy protection and information preservation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gabriel Loiseau , Damien Sileo , Damien Riquet , Maxime Meyer , Marc Tommasi

This paper focuses on some shortcomings in current privacy and data protection regulations' ability to adequately address the ramifications of AI-driven data processing practices, in particular where data sets are combined and processed by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Gábor Erdélyi , Olivia J. Erdélyi , Andreas W. Kempa-Liehr

Sanitizing sensitive text data typically involves removing personally identifiable information (PII) or generating synthetic data under the assumption that these methods adequately protect privacy; however, their effectiveness is often only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rui Xin , Niloofar Mireshghallah , Shuyue Stella Li , Michael Duan , Hyunwoo Kim , Yejin Choi , Yulia Tsvetkov , Sewoong Oh , Pang Wei Koh

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

In the recent time, the problem of protecting privacy in statistical data before they are published has become a pressing one. Many reliable studies have been accomplished, and loads of solutions have been proposed. Though, all these…

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

There are currently two approaches to anonymization: "utility first" (use an anonymization method with suitable utility features, then empirically evaluate the disclosure risk and, if necessary, reduce the risk by possibly sacrificing some…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Krishnamurty Muralidhar

The principle of data minimization aims to reduce the amount of data collected, processed or retained to minimize the potential for misuse, unauthorized access, or data breaches. Rooted in privacy-by-design principles, data minimization has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Prakhar Ganesh , Cuong Tran , Reza Shokri , Ferdinando Fioretto

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

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

We consider the privacy problem in data publishing: given a relation I containing sensitive information 'anonymize' it to obtain a view V such that, on one hand attackers cannot learn any sensitive information from V, and on the other hand…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vibhor Rastogi , Dan Suciu , Sungho Hong

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

As mobile app usage continues to rise, so does the generation of extensive user interaction data, which includes actions such as swiping, zooming, or the time spent on a screen. Apps often collect a large amount of this data and claim to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Feiyang Tang , Bjarte M. Østvold

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

Numerous generalization techniques have been proposed for privacy preserving data publishing. Most existing techniques, however, implicitly assume that the adversary knows little about the anonymization algorithm adopted by the data…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-03-29 Xiaokui Xiao , Yufei Tao , Nick Koudas

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

The Internet of Things' potential for major privacy invasion is a concern. This paper reports on a systematic literature review of privacy-preserving solutions appearing in the research literature and in the media. We analysed proposed…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Noura Aleisa , Karen Renaud

Software logs, generated during the runtime of software systems, are essential for various development and analysis activities, such as anomaly detection and failure diagnosis. However, the presence of sensitive information in these logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Roozbeh Aghili , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh