Title
k-anonymous Microdata Release via Post Randomisation Method.
Abstract
The problem of the release of anonymized microdata is an important topic in the fields of statistical disclosure control SDC and privacy preserving data publishing PPDP, and yet it remains sufficiently unsolved. In these research fields, k-anonymity has been widely studied as an anonymity notion for mainly deterministic anonymization algorithms, and some probabilistic relaxations have been developed. However, they are not sufficient due to their limitations, i.e., being weaker than or incomparable to the original k-anonymity, or requiring strong parametric assumptions. In this paper, we propose Pk-anonymity, a new probabilistic k-anonymity. It is proven that Pk-anonymity is a mathematical extension of k-anonymity rather than a relaxation, and requires no parametric assumptions. These properties have a significant meaning in the viewpoint that it enables us to compare privacy levels of probabilistic microdata release algorithms with deterministic ones. We then apply Pk-anonymity to the post randomization method PRAM, which is an SDC algorithm based on randomization. PRAM is proven to satisfy Pk-anonymity in a controlled way, i.e., one can control PRAM's parameter so that Pk-anonymity is satisfied.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-22425-1_14
International Workshop on Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Post randomization method (PRAM),k-anonymity,PPDP
Computer science,Computer security,Uniformization (probability theory),k-anonymity,Parametric statistics,Data publishing,Microdata (HTML),Anonymity,Probabilistic logic,Statistical disclosure control
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1504.05353
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dai Ikarashi1276.33
Ryo Kikuchi2469.37
Koji Chida37312.49
Katsumi Takahashi471.27