Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Information: k-Anonymity and its Enforcement through Generalization and Suppression
Authors:	P. Samarati L. Sweeney
Published:	Technical Report (SRI-CSL-98-04), 1998
URL:	http://www.csl.sri.com/papers/sritr-98-04/
ENTRY DATE:	2008-06-16
ABSTRACT:	Today's globally networked society places great demand on the dissemination and sharing of person-specific data. Situations where aggregate statistical information was once the reporting norm now rely heavily on the transfer of microscopically detailed transaction and encounter information. This happens at a time when more and more historically public information is also electronically available. When these data are linked together, they provide an electronic shadow of a person or organization