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P. Samarati and L. Sweeney, "Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Information: k-Anonymity and its Enforcement through Generalization and Suppression", Tech. rep., Computer Science Laboratory, (SRI) International, 1998.

Protecting Privacy when Disclosing Information: k-Anonymity and its Enforcement through Generalization and Suppression
Authors: P. Samarati
L. Sweeney
Published: Tech Report, 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