Assessing global disclosure risk in masked microdata

WPES'04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 85-93

  Truta, Traian Marius ^a   Fotouhi, Farshad ^b   Barth Jones, Daniel ^c  

^a NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Privacy; Disclosure Risk; Information Loss and Microaggregation; Microdata; Statistical Disclosure

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

DISCLOSURE RISK; INFORMATION LOSS; MICROAGGREGATION; MICRODATA; STATISTICAL DISCLOSURE;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 20444450227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1029179.1029202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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