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Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Information: k-Anonymity and Its Enforcement through Generalization and Suppression (1998)
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@TECHREPORT{Samarati98protectingprivacy,
author = {Pierangela Samarati and Latanya Sweeney},
title = {Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Information: k-Anonymity and Its Enforcement through Generalization and Suppression},
institution = {},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
Today's globally networked society places great demand on the dissemination and sharing of person-specific data. Situations where aggregate statistical information was once the reporting norm now rely heavily on the transfer of microscopically detailed transaction and encounter information. This happens at a time when more and more historically public information is also electronically available. When these data are linked together, they provide an electronic shadow of a person or organization that is as identifying and personal as a fingerprint, even when the sources of the information contains no explicit identifiers, such as name and phone number. In order to protect the anonymity of individuals to whom released data refer, data holders often remove or encrypt explicit identifiers such as names, addresses and phone numbers. However, other distinctive data, which we term quasi-identifiers, often combine uniquely and can be linked to publicly available information to re-identify indiv...
Keyphrases
phone number explicit identifier electronic shadow detailed transaction distinctive data reporting norm person-specific data aggregate statistical information networked society place great demand encounter information available information data holder data refer term quasi-identifiers public information
