Information Privacy Engineering and Privacy by Design: Understanding Privacy Threats, Technology, and Regulations Based on Standards and Best Practices

Chapter 7. Privacy in Databases

Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

• Explain the difference between summary tables and microdata tables

• Understand the concept of re-identification

• Present an overview of the types of re-identification attacks

• Explain the difference between anonymization and de-identification

• Discuss the importance of quasi-identifiers and how they pose a threat to privacy

• List and explain the basic techniques for privacy-preserving data publishing

• Explain and illustrate the concept of k-anonymity

• Discuss approaches to protecting frequency tables

• Discuss approaches to protecting magnitude tables

• Understand the nature of the privacy threat to queryable databases

• Discuss approaches to query restriction ...