Information privacy for linked data

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.

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Main Author: Aron, Yotam
Other Authors: Lalana Kagal.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85215
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spelling mit-1721.1/852152019-04-10T12:58:19Z Information privacy for linked data Aron, Yotam Lalana Kagal. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-79). As data mining over massive amounts of linked data becomes more and more prevalent in research applications, information privacy becomes a more important issue. This is especially true in the biological and medical fields, where information sensitivity is high. Previous experience has shown that simple anonymization techniques, such as removing an individual's name from a data set, are inadequate to fully protect the data's participants. While strong privacy guarantees have been studied for relational databases, these are virtually non-existent for graph-structured linked data. This line of research is important, however, since the aggregation of data across different web sources may lead to privacy leaks. The ontological structure of linked data especially aids these attacks on privacy. The purpose of this thesis is two-fold. The first is to investigate differential privacy, a strong privacy guarantee, and how to construct differentially-private mechanisms for linked data. The second involves the design and implementation of the SPARQL Privacy Insurance Module (SPIM). Using a combination of well-studied techniques, such as authentication and access control, and the mechanisms developed to maintain differential privacy over linked data, it attempts to limit privacy hazards for SPARQL queries. By using these privacy-preservation techniques, data owners may be more willing to share their data sets with other researchers without the fear that it will be misused. Consequently, we can expect greater sharing of information, which will foster collaboration and improve the types of data that researchers can have access to. by Yotam Aron. M. Eng. 2014-03-05T15:55:38Z 2014-03-05T15:55:38Z 2013 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85215 870305338 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 79 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Information privacy for linked data
title Information privacy for linked data
title_full Information privacy for linked data
title_fullStr Information privacy for linked data
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title_short Information privacy for linked data
title_sort information privacy for linked data
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85215
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