Privacy Versus Confidentiality

Saying privacy, meaning confidentiality.

Privacy Homomorphisms for Statistical Confidentiality

When publishing contingency tables which contain official statistics, a need to preserve statistical confidentiality arises. Statistical disclosure of individual units must be prevented. There is a wide choice of techniques to achieve this anonymization: cell suppression, cell perturbation, etc. In this paper, we tackle the problem of using anonymized data to compute exact statistics; our appro...

Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information systems

Professor Vuori's paper, first presented at the fourth Medico-legal Conference in Prague in the spring of this year, deals with the problem of the maintenance of confidentiality in computerized health records. Although more and more information is required, the hardware of the computer systems is so sophisticated that it would be very expensive indeed to 'break in' and stealfrom a modern data b...

Data Confidentiality Versus Chase

We present a generalization of a strategy, called SCIKD, proposed in [7] that allows to reduce a disclosure risk of confidential data in an information system S [10] using methods based on knowledge discovery. The method proposed in [7] protects confidential data against Rule-based Chase, the null value imputation algorithm driven by certain rules [2], [4]. This method identifies a minimal subs...

Privacy, confidentiality, and electronic medical records.

The enhanced availability of health information in an electronic format is strategic for industry-wide efforts to improve the quality and reduce the cost of health care, yet it brings a concomitant concern of greater risk for loss of privacy among health care participants. The authors review the conflicting goals of accessibility and security for electronic medical records and discuss nontechni...