Improving Suppression to Reduce Disclosure Risk and Enhance Data Utility

Abstract

In Privacy Preserving Data Publishing, various privacy models have been developed for employing anonymization operations on sensitive individual level datasets, in order to publish the data for public access while preserving the privacy of individuals in the dataset. However, there is always a trade-off between preserving privacy and data utility; the more changes we make on the confidential dataset to reduce disclosure risk, the more information the data loses and the less data utility it preserves. The optimum privacy technique is the one that results in a dataset with minimum disclosure risk and maximum data utility. In this paper, we propose an improved suppression method, which reduces the disclosure risk and enhances the data utility by targeting the highest risk records and keeping other records intact. We have shown the effectiveness of our approach through an experiment on a real-world confidential dataset.

6 pages, conference

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