Does enforcing anonymity mean decreasing data usefulness?

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 15-21

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   Visaggio, Corrado Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Data privacy; Data usefulness

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; ANONYMIZATION; DATA USEFULNESS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SENSITIVE INFORMATIONS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 70349249358     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1456362.1456367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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