Scanning electronic documents for personally identifiable information

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 41-49

  Aura, Tuomas ^a   Kuhn, Thomas A ^b   Roe, Michael ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

metadata; personally identifiable information; privacy

Indexed keywords

DETECTION TOOLS; DIFFERENT STAGES; DOCUMENT AUTHORING; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT; PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION; WORD PROCESSOR;

COMPUTER PRIVACY; DATA PRIVACY; METADATA; TOOLS; WORD PROCESSING;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 84885208335     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1179601.1179608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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