Practical and Ready-to-Use Methodology to Assess the re-identification Risk in Anonymized Datasets

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Autori principali: Sondeck, Louis-Philippe, Laurent, Maryline
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author Sondeck, Louis-Philippe
Laurent, Maryline
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Laurent, Maryline
contents To prove that a dataset is sufficiently anonymized, many privacy policies suggest that a re-identification risk assessment be performed, but do not provide a precise methodology for doing so, leaving the industry alone with the problem. This paper proposes a practical and ready-to-use methodology for re-identification risk assessment, the originality of which is manifold: (1) it is the first to follow well-known risk analysis methods (e.g. EBIOS) that have been used in the cybersecurity field for years, which consider not only the ability to perform an attack, but also the impact such an attack can have on an individual; (2) it is the first to qualify attributes and values of attributes with e.g. degree of exposure, as known real-world attacks mainly target certain types of attributes and not others.
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spellingShingle Practical and Ready-to-Use Methodology to Assess the re-identification Risk in Anonymized Datasets
Sondeck, Louis-Philippe
Laurent, Maryline
Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
To prove that a dataset is sufficiently anonymized, many privacy policies suggest that a re-identification risk assessment be performed, but do not provide a precise methodology for doing so, leaving the industry alone with the problem. This paper proposes a practical and ready-to-use methodology for re-identification risk assessment, the originality of which is manifold: (1) it is the first to follow well-known risk analysis methods (e.g. EBIOS) that have been used in the cybersecurity field for years, which consider not only the ability to perform an attack, but also the impact such an attack can have on an individual; (2) it is the first to qualify attributes and values of attributes with e.g. degree of exposure, as known real-world attacks mainly target certain types of attributes and not others.
title Practical and Ready-to-Use Methodology to Assess the re-identification Risk in Anonymized Datasets
topic Cryptography and Security
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10841