Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity
Data privacy has been an important area of research in recent years. Dataset often consists of sensitive data fields, exposure of which may jeopardize interests of individuals associated with the data. In order to resolve this issue, privacy techniques can be used to hinder the identification of a p...
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| author | Esmeel, Thamer Khalil Hasan, Md Munirul Kabir, Muhammad Nomani Ahmad, Firdaus |
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| description | Data privacy has been an important area of research in recent years. Dataset often consists of sensitive data fields, exposure of which may jeopardize interests of individuals associated with the data. In order to resolve this issue, privacy techniques can be used to hinder the identification of a person through anonymization of the sensitive data in the dataset to protect sensitive information, while the anonymized dataset can be used by the third parties for analysis purposes without obstruction. In this research, we investigated a privacy technique, k-anonymity for different values of k on different number c of columns of the dataset. Next, the information loss due to k-anonymity is computed. The anonymized files go through the classification process by some machine-learning algorithms i.e., Naive Bayes, J48 and neural network in order to check a balance between data anonymity and data utility. Based on the classification accuracy, the optimal values of k and c are obtained, and thus, the optimal k and c can be used for kanonymity algorithm to anonymize optimal number of columns of the dataset. |
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| spelling | ump-315452021-08-17T08:37:35Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/31545/ Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity Esmeel, Thamer Khalil Hasan, Md Munirul Kabir, Muhammad Nomani Ahmad, Firdaus QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Data privacy has been an important area of research in recent years. Dataset often consists of sensitive data fields, exposure of which may jeopardize interests of individuals associated with the data. In order to resolve this issue, privacy techniques can be used to hinder the identification of a person through anonymization of the sensitive data in the dataset to protect sensitive information, while the anonymized dataset can be used by the third parties for analysis purposes without obstruction. In this research, we investigated a privacy technique, k-anonymity for different values of k on different number c of columns of the dataset. Next, the information loss due to k-anonymity is computed. The anonymized files go through the classification process by some machine-learning algorithms i.e., Naive Bayes, J48 and neural network in order to check a balance between data anonymity and data utility. Based on the classification accuracy, the optimal values of k and c are obtained, and thus, the optimal k and c can be used for kanonymity algorithm to anonymize optimal number of columns of the dataset. IEEE Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/31545/1/Balancing%20Data%20Utility%20versus%20Information%20Loss%20in.pdf Esmeel, Thamer Khalil and Hasan, Md Munirul and Kabir, Muhammad Nomani and Ahmad, Firdaus Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity. In: IEEE 8th Conference on Systems, Process and Control (ICSPC) , 11–12 December 2020 , Melaka, Malaysia. pp. 158-161.. ISBN 978-1-7281-8861-4/20 (Published) http://10.1109/ICSPC50992.2020.9305776 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software Esmeel, Thamer Khalil Hasan, Md Munirul Kabir, Muhammad Nomani Ahmad, Firdaus Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity |
| title | Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity |
| title_full | Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity |
| title_fullStr | Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity |
| title_short | Balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-Anonymity |
| title_sort | balancing data utility versus information loss in data-privacy protection using k-anonymity |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software |
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