Fine-grained k-anonymity for privacy preserving in cloud

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Arava, Karuna^* | Lingamgunta, Sumalatha

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University College of Engineering, JNTUK, Kakinada, India

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Karuna Arava, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University College of Engineering, JNTUK, Kakinada, India. %****␣kes-23-kes190415_temp.tex␣Line␣25␣**** Tel.: +91 944 094 2777; E-mail: karunagouthana@gmail.com.

Abstract: Data sensitive information is a crucial concern of every individual. Hospitals lag their trust in privacy to take up the newest technologies of cloud like Information-as-a-service, storage-as-a-service, to deploy their patient’s data for better health management. Intensive study is being undertaken to run-over the shortcomings of data privacy for the published information as well as the publisher, One amongst the methods is privacy by statistics using data mining techniques such as k-anonymity. The fundamental technique of k-anonymity is to anonymize sensitive information of an individual person published that could not be determined from at least (k-1) instances. The best way to attain k-anonymity is by grouping similar records into a cluster by choosing the best seed value to balance utility and privacy in the published data. This paper proposes a Fine-grained k-anonymity algorithm which uses a systematic procedure of seed selection. The proposed method exhibits a minimum information loss than existing clustering algorithms.

Keywords: Clustering, k-anonymity, privacy preservation, information loss, data privacy

DOI: 10.3233/KES-190415

Journal: International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 241-247, 2019