Title
Using classification methods to evaluate attribute disclosure risk
Abstract
Statistical Disclosure Control protection methods perturb the nonconfidential attributes of an original dataset and publish the perturbed results along with the values of confidential attributes. Traditionally, such a method is considered to achieve a good privacy level if attackers who try to link an original record with its perturbed counterpart have a low success probability. Another opinion is lately gaining popularity: the protection methods should resist not only record re-identification attacks, but also attacks that try to guess the true value of some confidential attribute of some original record(s). This is known as attribute disclosure risk. In this paper we propose a quite simple strategy to estimate the attribute disclosure risk suffered by a protection method: using a classifier, constructed from the protected (public) dataset, to predict the attribute values of some original record. After defining this approach in detail, we describe some experiments that show the power and danger of the approach: very popular protection methods suffer from very high attribute disclosure risk values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-16292-3_27
MDAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
high attribute disclosure risk,original dataset,protection method,attribute value,classification method,nonconfidential attribute,original record,confidential attribute,attribute disclosure risk,popular protection method,statistical disclosure control protection
Publication,Confidentiality,Computer science,Computer security,Popularity,Privacy Level,Classifier (linguistics),Statistical disclosure control
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6408
0302-9743
3-642-16291-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jordi Nin131126.53
Javier Herranz262831.52
Vicenç Torra32666234.27