Utility-Based Anonymization Using Generalization Boundaries to Protect Sensitive Attributes

  • Hussien A
  • Darwish N
  • Hefny H
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Abstract

Privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) has become more and more important because it allows sharing of privacy sensitive data for analytical purposes. A big number of privacy techniques were developed most of which used the k-anonymity property which have many shortcomings, so other privacy techniques were introduced (l-diversity, p-sensitive k-anonymity, (α, k)-anonymity, t-closeness, etc.). While they are different in their methods and quality of their results, they all focus first on masking the data, and then protecting the quality of the data. This paper is concerned with providing an enhanced privacy technique that combines some anonymity techniques to maintain both privacy and data utility by considering the sensitivity values of attributes in queries using sensitivity weights which determine taking in account utility-based anonymization and then only queries having sensitive attributes whose values exceed threshold are to be changed using gene-ralization boundaries. The threshold value is calculated depending on the different weights as-signed to individual attributes which take into account the utility of each attribute and those par-ticular attributes whose total weights exceed the threshold values is changed using generalization boundaries and the other queries can be directly published. Experiment results using UT dallas anonymization toolbox on real data set adult database from the UC machine learning repository show that although the proposed technique preserves privacy, it also can maintain the utility of the publishing data.

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Hussien, A. A., Darwish, N. R., & Hefny, H. A. (2015). Utility-Based Anonymization Using Generalization Boundaries to Protect Sensitive Attributes. Journal of Information Security, 06(03), 179–196. https://doi.org/10.4236/jis.2015.63019

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