Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

7 Privacy-preserving data mining techniques

This chapter covers

• The importance of privacy preservation in data mining
• Privacy protection mechanisms for processing and publishing data
• Exploring privacy-enhancing techniques for data mining
• Implementing privacy techniques in data mining with Python

So far we have discussed different privacy-enhancing technologies that the research community and the industry have partnered together on. This chapter focuses on how these privacy techniques can be utilized for data mining and management operations. In essence, data mining is the process of discovering new relationships and patterns in data to achieve further meaningful analysis. This usually involves machine learning, statistical operations, and data ...