Data Privacy: Principles and Practice

The book covers data privacy in depth with respect to data mining, test data management, synthetic data generation etc. It formalizes principles of data privacy that are essential for good anonymization design based on the data format and discipline. The principles outline best practices and reflect on the conflicting relationship between privacy and utility. From a practice standpoint, it provides practitioners and researchers with a definitive guide to approach anonymization of various data formats, including multidimensional, longitudinal, time-series, transaction, and graph data. In addition to helping CIOs protect confidential data, it also offers a guideline as to how this can be implemented for a wide range of data at the enterprise level.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Data Privacy
Chapter 2. Static Data Anonymization Part I: Multidimensional Data
Chapter 3. Static Data Anonymization Part II: Complex Data Structures
Chapter 4. Static Data Anonymization Part III: Threats to Anonymized Data
Chapter 5. Privacy Preserving Data Mining
Chapter 6. Privacy Preserving Test Data Manufacturing
Chapter 7. Synthetic Data Generation
Chapter 8. Dynamic Data Protection: Tokenization
Chapter 9. Privacy Regulations
Appendix A: Anonymization Design Principles for Multidimensional Data
Appendix B: PPTDM Manifesto