Minimizing Minimality and Maximizing Utility: Analyzing Method-based attacks on Anonymized Data
Summary: Introduces the minimality (method-based) attack on anonymized data and analyzes its impact across a broad class of privacy methods. Theory and experiments show many algorithms are unaffected or bound the adversary’s belief to small constants; even vulnerable schemes remain utility-preserving, implying practical mitigation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Graham Cormode
- 2. Divesh Srivastava
- 3. Ninghui Li
- 4. Tiancheng Li
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,138 | Publishing Microdata with a Robust Privacy Guarantee | 2012 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 458 | Incognito: Efficient Full-Domain K-Anonymity | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00022698513 |
| 654 | Anatomy: Simple and Effective Privacy Preservation | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00018594644 |
| 1,382 | Minimality Attack in Privacy Preserving Data Publishing | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00012270633 |
| 2,404 | Attacks on Privacy and deFinetti's Theorem | 2009 | SIGMOD | 8.8736984e-05 |
| 12,320 | Anonymized Data: Generation, Models, Usage | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
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