Author, as appears in the article.: Domingo-Ferrer, Josep; Soria-Comas, Jordi
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Domingo Ferrer, Josep / SORIA COMAS, JORGE
Keywords: Randomized response Protocols Privacy preserving data publishing Privacy Phase change random access memory Multivariate data Local anonymization Estimation Differential privacy Data privacy Curse of dimensionality Clustering algorithms randomized response protocols privacy preserving data publishing phase change random access memory multivariate data local anonymization estimation differential privacy data privacy curse of dimensionality clustering algorithms
Abstract: IEEE In our data world, a host of not necessarily trusted controllers gather data on individual subjects. To preserve her privacy and, more generally, her informational self-determination, the individual has to be empowered by giving her agency on her own data. Maximum agency is afforded by local anonymization, that allows each individual to anonymize her own data before handing them to the data controller. Randomized response (RR) is a local anonymization approach able to yield multi-dimensional full sets of anonymized microdata that are valid for exploratory analysis and machine learning. This is so because an unbiased estimate of the distribution of the true data of individuals can be obtained from their pooled randomized data. Furthermore, RR offers rigorous privacy guarantees. The main weakness of RR is the curse of dimensionality when applied to several attributes: as the number of attributes grows, the accuracy of the estimated true data distribution quickly degrades. We propose several complementary approaches to mitigate the dimensionality problem. First, we present two basic protocols, separate RR on each attribute and joint RR for all attributes, and discuss their limitations. Then we introduce an algorithm to form clusters of attributes so that attributes in different clusters can be viewed as independent and joint RR can be performed within each cluster. After that, we introduce an adjustment algorithm for the randomized data set that repairs some of the accuracy loss due to assuming independence between attributes when using RR separately on each attribute or due to assuming independence between clusters in cluster-wise RR. We also present empirical work to illustrate the proposed methods.
Thematic Areas: Interdisciplinar Information systems Engineering, electrical & electronic Computer science, information systems Computer science, artificial intelligence Computer science applications Computational theory and mathematics Ciência da computação
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: josep.domingo@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-7213-4962
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9298881
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Ieee Transactions On Knowledge And Data Engineering. 34 (10): 4933-4946
APA: Domingo-Ferrer, Josep; Soria-Comas, Jordi (2022). Multi-Dimensional Randomized Response. Ieee Transactions On Knowledge And Data Engineering, 34(10), 4933-4946. DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2020.3045759
Article's DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2020.3045759
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications