Disclosure risk assessment in statistical microdata protection via advanced record linkage |
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Authors: | Domingo-Ferrer Josep Torra Vicenç |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dept. Comput. Eng. and Maths—ETSE, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av Països Catalans 26, E-43007 Tarragona, Catalonia;(2) Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial—CSIC, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia |
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Abstract: | The performance of Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) methods for microdata (also called masking methods) is measured in terms of the utility and the disclosure risk associated to the protected microdata set. Empirical disclosure risk assessment based on record linkage stands out as a realistic and practical disclosure risk assessment methodology which is applicable to every conceivable masking method. The intruder is assumed to know an external data set, whose records are to be linked to those in the protected data set; the percent of correctly linked record pairs is a measure of disclosure risk. This paper reviews conventional record linkage, which assumes shared variables between the external and the protected data sets, and then shows that record linkage—and thus disclosure—is still possible without shared variables. |
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Keywords: | statistical disclosure control record linkage disclosure risk for microdata re-identification |
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