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2021-01-28
Wang, N., Song, H., Luo, T., Sun, J., Li, J..  2020.  Enhanced p-Sensitive k-Anonymity Models for Achieving Better Privacy. 2020 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC). :148—153.

To our best knowledge, the p-sensitive k-anonymity model is a sophisticated model to resist linking attacks and homogeneous attacks in data publishing. However, if the distribution of sensitive values is skew, the model is difficult to defend against skew attacks and even faces sensitive attacks. In practice, the privacy requirements of different sensitive values are not always identical. The “one size fits all” unified privacy protection level may cause unnecessary information loss. To address these problems, the paper quantifies privacy requirements with the concept of IDF and concerns more about sensitive groups. Two enhanced anonymous models with personalized protection characteristic, that is, (p,αisg) -sensitive k-anonymity model and (pi,αisg)-sensitive k-anonymity model, are then proposed to resist skew attacks and sensitive attacks. Furthermore, two clustering algorithms with global search and local search are designed to implement our models. Experimental results show that the two enhanced models have outstanding advantages in better privacy at the expense of a little data utility.

2020-07-10
Podlesny, Nikolai J., Kayem, Anne V.D.M., Meinel, Christoph.  2019.  Identifying Data Exposure Across Distributed High-Dimensional Health Data Silos through Bayesian Networks Optimised by Multigrid and Manifold. 2019 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech). :556—563.

We present a novel, and use case agnostic method of identifying and circumventing private data exposure across distributed and high-dimensional data repositories. Examples of distributed high-dimensional data repositories include medical research and treatment data, where oftentimes more than 300 describing attributes appear. As such, providing strong guarantees of data anonymity in these repositories is a hard constraint in adhering to privacy legislation. Yet, when applied to distributed high-dimensional data, existing anonymisation algorithms incur high levels of information loss and do not guarantee privacy defeating the purpose of anonymisation. In this paper, we address this issue by using Bayesian networks to handle data transformation for anonymisation. By evaluating every attribute combination to determine the privacy exposure risk, the conditional probability linking attribute pairs is computed. Pairs with a high conditional probability expose the risk of deanonymisation similar to quasi-identifiers and can be separated instead of deleted, as in previous algorithms. Attribute separation removes the risk of privacy exposure, and deletion avoidance results in a significant reduction in information loss. In other words, assimilating the conditional probability of outliers directly in the adjacency matrix in a greedy fashion is quick and thwarts de-anonymisation. Since identifying every privacy violating attribute combination is a W[2]-complete problem, we optimise the procedure with a multigrid solver method by evaluating the conditional probabilities between attribute pairs, and aggregating state space explosion of attribute pairs through manifold learning. Finally, incremental processing of new data is achieved through inexpensive, continuous (delta) learning.

2018-02-06
Hassoon, I. A., Tapus, N., Jasim, A. C..  2017.  Enhance Privacy in Big Data and Cloud via Diff-Anonym Algorithm. 2017 16th RoEduNet Conference: Networking in Education and Research (RoEduNet). :1–5.

The main issue with big data in cloud is the processed or used always need to be by third party. It is very important for the owners of data or clients to trust and to have the guarantee of privacy for the information stored in cloud or analyzed as big data. The privacy models studied in previous research showed that privacy infringement for big data happened because of limitation, privacy guarantee rate or dissemination of accurate data which is obtainable in the data set. In addition, there are various privacy models. In order to determine the best and the most appropriate model to be applied in the future, which also guarantees big data privacy, it is necessary to invest in research and study. In the next part, we surfed some of the privacy models in order to determine the advantages and disadvantages of each model in privacy assurance for big data in cloud. The present study also proposes combined Diff-Anonym algorithm (K-anonymity and differential models) to provide data anonymity with guarantee to keep balance between ambiguity of private data and clarity of general data.