Title
Privacy Preservation and Inference with Minimal Mobility Information
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
There is much debate about the challenge to anonymize a large amount of information obtained in big data scenarios. Besides, it is even harder considering inferences from data may be used as additional adversary knowledge. This is the case of geo-located data, where the Points of Interest (POIs) may have additional information that can be used to link them to a user’s real identity. However, in most cases, when a model of the raw data is published, this processing protects up to some point the privacy of the data subjects by minimizing the published information. In this paper, we measure the privacy obtained by the minimization of the POIs published when we apply the Mobility Markov Chain (MMC) model, which extracts the most important POIs of an individual. We consider the gender inferences that an adversary may obtain from publishing the MMC model together with additional information such as the gender or age distribution of each POI, or the aggregated gender distribution of all the POIs visited by a data subject. We measure the unicity obtained after applying the MMC model, and the probability that an adversary that knows some POIs in the data before processing may be able to link them with the POIs published after the MMC model. Finally, we measure the anonymity lost when adding the gender attribute to the side knowledge of an adversary that has access to the MMC model. We test our algorithms on a real transaction database.
Start page
129
End page
142
Volume
1070 CCIS
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la información
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084842410
Source
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Resource of which it is part
Communications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN of the container
18650929
ISBN of the container
9783030461393
Conference
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the Spanish Government, in part under Grant RTI2018-095094-B-C22 “CONSENT”, and in part under Grant TIN2014-57364-C2-2-R “SMARTGLACIS.”
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