CPSC 504: Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, September 2011.

• Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Johannes Gehrke, Daniel Kifer, and Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam. l-Diversity: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006). Atlanta Georgia, April 2006.

You will find it convenient to first read the following paper which first proposed the notion of k-anonymity, on which the above paper built. It’s worth noting that even l-diversity is by no means the final word on privacy in data publishing!

• L. Sweeney. k-anonymity: a model for protecting privacy. International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems, 10 (5), 2002; 557-570.