Privacy-Preserving Access Control in Electronic Health Record Linkage

Sharing aggregated electronic health records (EHRs) for integrated health care and public health studies is increasingly demanded. Patient privacy demands that anonymisation procedures are in place for data sharing. However traditional methods such as k-anonymity and its derivations are often over-generalizing resulting in lower data accuracy. To tackle this issue, we present the Semantic Linkage K-Anonymity (SLKA) approach supporting ongoing record linkages. We show how SLKA balances privacy and utility preservation through detecting risky combinations hidden in data releases

Anonymizing Sequential Releases under Arbitrary Updates

In today’s global information society, governments, companies, public and private institutions and even individuals have to cope with growing demands for personal data publication from scientists, statisticians, journalists and many other data consumers. Current researches on privacy-preserving data publishing by sanitization focus on static dataset, which have no updates. In real life however, data sources are dynamic and usually the updates in these datasets are mainly arbitrary. Then, applying any popular static privacy-preserving technique inevitably yields to information disclosure. Among the few works in the literature that relate to the serial data publication, none of them focuses on arbitrary updates, i.e. with any consistent insert/update/delete sequence, and especially in the presence of auxiliary knowledge that tracks updates of individuals. In this communication, we first highlight the invalidation of existing algorithms and present an extension of the m-invariance generalization model coined τ-safety. Then we formally state the problem of privacypreserving dataset publication of sequential releases in the presence of arbitrary updates and chainability-based background knowledge. We also propose an approximate algorithm, and we show that our approach to τ-safety, not only prevents from any privacy breach but also achieve a high utility of the anonymous releases