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Macrodata protection techniques protect the confidentiality of sensitive information when releasing aggregated values.
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Governmental, public, and private organizations are more and more frequently required to make data available for external release in a secure way. Indeed, if on the one hand there is a need to disseminate some data, there is on the other hand an equally strong need to protect those data that, for various reasons, should not be disclosed. Traditionally, data collected from surveys are released in tabular form (macrodata). Macrodata are aggregate information (statistics) on users or organizations usually presented as two-dimensional tables. Many techniques have been developed for protecting data released publicly or semi-publicly from improper disclosure. These techniques depend on the method in which such data are released. Macrodata...
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Foresti, S. (2011). Macrodata Protection. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_756
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