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Anonymisation of geographical distance matrices via Lipschitz embedding

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2016
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Title
Anonymisation of geographical distance matrices via Lipschitz embedding
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International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12942-015-0031-7
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Martin Kroll, Rainer Schnell

Abstract

Anonymisation of spatially referenced data has received increasing attention in recent years. Whereas the research focus has been on the anonymisation of point locations, the disclosure risk arising from the publishing of inter-point distances and corresponding anonymisation methods have not been studied systematically. We propose a new anonymisation method for the release of geographical distances between records of a microdata file-for example patients in a medical database. We discuss a data release scheme in which microdata without coordinates and an additional distance matrix between the corresponding rows of the microdata set are released. In contrast to most other approaches this method preserves small distances better than larger distances. The distances are modified by a variant of Lipschitz embedding. The effects of the embedding parameters on the risk of data disclosure are evaluated by linkage experiments using simulated data. The results indicate small disclosure risks for appropriate embedding parameters. The proposed method is useful if published distance information might be misused for the re-identification of records. The method can be used for publishing scientific-use-files and as an additional tool for record-linkage studies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Unknown 25 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 23%
Student > Master 5 19%
Unspecified 4 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 12%
Other 2 8%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 5 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 19%
Unspecified 4 15%
Computer Science 4 15%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 6 23%
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