The increasing volume of personal and sensitive data being harvested by data controllers
makes it increasingly necessary to use the cloud not just to store the data, but also to …

Abstract The dissemination of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can be highly beneficial for
a range of medical studies, spanning from clinical trials to epidemic control studies, but it …

Privacy and data protection constitute core values of individuals and of democratic societies.
There have been decades of debate on how those values-and legal obligations-can be …

In recent years, privacy-preserving data mining has been studied extensively, because of
the wide proliferation of sensitive information on the internet. A number of algorithmic …

The presence of multimodal sensors on current mobile phones enables a broad range of
novel mobile applications. Environmental and user-centric sensor data of unprecedented …

This book helps practitioners gain a deeper understanding, at an applied level, of the issues
involved in improving data quality through editing, imputation, and record linkage. The first …

Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance.
The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the …

Preserving individual privacy when publishing data is a problem that is receiving increasing
attention. According to the fc-anonymity principle, each release of data must be such that …

Sensitive personal data are created in many application domains, and there is now an
increasing demand to share, integrate, and link such data within and across organisations in …

Abstract k-Anonymity is a useful concept to solve the tension between data utility and
respondent privacy in individual data (microdata) protection. However, the generalization …