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The Vulnerability of Multiplicative Noise Protection to Correlation-Attacks on Continuous Microdata

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  • Yue Ma

    (University of Wollongong)

  • Yan-Xia Lin

    (University of Wollongong)

  • Rathindra Sarathy

    (Oklahoma State University)

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When multiplicative noises are used to protect values of a sensitive attribute in a microdata, it is frequently assumed that data intruders use the noise-multiplied value to estimate the corresponding unobservable original value of a target record. In this paper, we show that, data intruders could easily construct another estimate instead of using the noise-multiplied value to attack an original value. The new estimate, namely “correlation-attack” estimate, is obtained by exploiting the potentially high correlation between the noise-multiplied data and the original data. We provide a detailed comparison between the two estimates (noise-multiplied value and the correlation-attack estimate) by comparing the mean squared errors of the two underlying estimators, and we propose that data providers should always assess the disclosure risks from both estimators when generating noise-multiplied data. Correspondingly, we propose a disclosure risk measure which could be used by data providers for noise generating variable selection during data masking stage. A simulation study is provided to illustrate how the disclosure risk measure could help with noise generating variable selection for masking a set of original data.

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  • Yue Ma & Yan-Xia Lin & Rathindra Sarathy, 2020. "The Vulnerability of Multiplicative Noise Protection to Correlation-Attacks on Continuous Microdata," Sankhya B: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Springer;Indian Statistical Institute, vol. 82(2), pages 305-327, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:sankhb:v:82:y:2020:i:2:d:10.1007_s13571-019-00191-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s13571-019-00191-0
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    1. Xiao-Bai Li & Sumit Sarkar, 2013. "Class-Restricted Clustering and Microperturbation for Data Privacy," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 59(4), pages 796-812, April.
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