Privacy matters.
The article discusses the protection of personal data and information, examining ways that computer scientists and others are attempting to use a concept called "differential privacy" to standardize the manner in which personal data is protected. The way in which computer hackers can cull through un...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 9; pp. 17 - 19 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Sep2008
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the protection of personal data and information, examining ways that computer scientists and others are attempting to use a concept called "differential privacy" to standardize the manner in which personal data is protected. The way in which computer hackers can cull through unrelated data from unrelated sources and create a profile of someone is called a linkage attack. Other topics include combining released statistics,introducing random noise, and databases that behave the same. |
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