Online published: 2024-11-16
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Nowadays, data owners often need to provide the data they have collected to other organizations for data analysis. To prevent the leakage of users' private information, data is typically anonymized before being published or shared, ensuring a certain level of privacy protection. Therefore, measuring the privacy protection level of published data is an important research topic. In previous studies, there has been a lack of sufficiently general methods to accurately measure the privacy protection level of published data. A method to measure the privacy protection level of published data was proposed. The method primarily uses conditional entropy and mutual information to measure the difference between the data before and after processing. The results are then substituted into a formula to obtain an accurate privacy protection level, ultimately calculating a number between 0 and 1 to precisely indicate the privacy protection level of the data. Finally, this method was applied to real datasets. After anonymizing the datasets to meet commonly used privacy models, the privacy protection level of each attribute was measured under different privacy models, thereby demonstrating the practicality of the method.
Key words: anonymity; privacy; information entropy; conditional entropy; mutual information
ZANG Shuai , ZHU Youwen . Measurement the effect of anonymization techniques over databases[J]. Journal of Cybersecurity, 2024 , 2(3) : 67 -78 . DOI: 10.20172/j.issn.2097-3136.240306
表 1 原始数据Table 1 Raw Data |
| 序号 | 邮政编码 | 年龄 | 薪资 | 疾病 |
| 1 | 29 | gastric ulcer | ||
| 2 | 22 | gastritis | ||
| 3 | 27 | stomach cancer | ||
| 4 | 43 | gastritis | ||
| 5 | 52 | flu | ||
| 6 | 47 | bronchitis | ||
| 7 | 30 | bronchitis | ||
| 8 | 36 | pneumonia | ||
| 9 | 32 | stomach cancer |
表 2 匿名数据Table 2 Anonymous Data |
| 序号 | 邮政编码 | 年龄 | 薪资 | 疾病 |
| 1 | gastric ulcer | |||
| 2 | gastritis | |||
| 3 | stomach cancer | |||
| 4 | gastritis | |||
| 5 | flu | |||
| 6 | bronchitis | |||
| 7 | bronchitis | |||
| 8 | pneumonia | |||
| 9 | stomach cancer |
表 3 数据集的信息Table 3 Information on the dataset |
| 序号 | 类型 | 属性 | 不同值数量 | 符号 |
| 1 | 索引 | 识别符 | ||
| 2 | 年龄 | 准识别符 | 74 | |
| 3 | 工作类型 | 准识别符 | 8 | |
| 4 | 教育程度 | 敏感属性 | 16 | |
| 5 | 母国国籍 | 敏感属性 | 41 | |
| 6 | 职业 | 准识别符 | 14 | |
| 7 | 种族 | 准识别符 | 5 | |
| 8 | 性别 | 准识别符 | 2 | |
| 9 | 薪资 | 准识别符 | 2 | |
| 10 | 婚姻状况 | 准识别符 | 7 | |
| 11 | – | 不敏感属性 | – |
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