In this paper we investigate the problem of protecting privacy for publishing search engine logs. Search engines play a crucial role in the navigation through the vastness of the Web. Privacy-preserving data publishing (PPDP) provides methods and tools for publishing useful information while preserving data privacy. Recently, PPDP has received considerable attention in research communities, and...

In this paper we examine the problem of defending privacy for publishing search engine logs. Search engines play a vital role in the navigation through the enormity of the Web. Privacy-preserving data publishing (PPDP) provides techniques and tools for publishing helpful information while preserving data privacy. Recently, PPDP has received significant attention in research communities, and sev...

The collection of digital information by governments, corporations, and individuals has created tremendous opportunities for knowledgeand information-based decision making. Driven by mutual benefits, or by regulations that require certain data to be published, there is a demand for the exchange and publication of data among various parties. Data in its original form, however, typically contains...

With the pervasive using of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and telemedicine technologies, more and more digital healthcare data are accumulated from multiple sources. As healthcare data is valuable for both commercial and scientific research, the demand of sharing healthcare data has been growing rapidly. Nevertheless, health care data normally contains a large amount of personal information,...

This paper considers the non-centralized version of privacy preserving data publishing (PPDP), which refers to generating published tables from multiple non-centralized private tables owned by different data holders. Traditional solutions to PPDP on a single centralized dataset cannot be directly applied to this problem. Even if every published table satisfies a traditional privacy preserving r...

data sanitization is a process that is used to promote the sharing of transactional databases among organizations and businesses, it alleviates concerns for individuals and organizations regarding the disclosure of sensitive patterns. it transforms the source database into a released database so that counterparts cannot discover the sensitive patterns and so data confidentiality is preserved ag...