Title
Privacy preserving mining of association rules
Abstract
We present a framework for mining association rules from transactions consisting of categorical items where the data has been randomized to preserve privacy of individual transactions. While it is feasible to recover association rules and preserve privacy using a straightforward "uniform" randomization, the discovered rules can unfortunately be exploited to find privacy breaches. We analyze the nature of privacy breaches and propose a class of randomization operators that are much more effective than uniform randomization in limiting the breaches. We derive formulae for an unbiased support estimator and its variance, which allow us to recover itemset supports from randomized datasets, and show how to incorporate these formulae into mining algorithms. Finally, we present experimental results that validate the algorithm by applying it on real datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/775047.775080
Inf. Syst.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
data mining,privacy,association rule,privacy breach
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
4
0306-4379
1-58113-567-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
431
35.03
19
Authors
4
Search Limit
100431
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandre V. Evfimievski150141.76
Ramakrishnan Srikant2133491804.96
Rakesh Agrawal3297515959.33
Johannes Gehrke4133621055.06