Injecting Utility into Anonymized Datasets

Summary: Introduces a formal utility metric for anonymized data and critiques existing heuristic utility measures. Builds a framework to inject semantically meaningful information into k-anonymity and l-diversity tables, boosting utility while preserving privacy guarantees. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3815
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00010050522
Overall Rank: 1,669 | 88.56%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142499

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Authors

1. Daniel Kifer (Cornell University)
2. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kifer_sigmod06,
        title = {{Injecting Utility into Anonymized Datasets}},
        author = {Kifer, Daniel and Gehrke, Johannes},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142499},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142499},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
572	Anatomy: Simple and Effective Privacy Preservation	2006	VLDB	0.00016316092
1,010	m-Invariance: Towards Privacy Preserving Re-publication of Dynamic Datasets	2007	SIGMOD	0.00012684067
1,295	Minimality Attack in Privacy Preserving Data Publishing	2007	VLDB	0.00011272398
1,746	The Boundary Between Privacy and Utility in Data Publishing	2007	VLDB	9.8564338e-05
2,255	Attacks on Privacy and deFinetti's Theorem	2009	SIGMOD	8.8595313e-05
4,037	Privacy Skyline: Privacy with Multidimensional Adversarial Knowledge	2007	VLDB	6.9431497e-05
4,344	Anonymization of Set-Valued Data via Top-Down, Local Generalization	2009	VLDB	6.7522581e-05
4,629	Time Series Compressibility and Privacy	2007	VLDB	6.5960717e-05
4,699	Fast Data Anonymization with Low Information Loss	2007	VLDB	6.5560796e-05
4,732	Optimal Random Perturbation at Multiple Privacy Levels	2009	VLDB	6.5343833e-05
7,632	K-Anonymization as Spatial Indexing: Toward Scalable and Incremental Anonymization	2007	VLDB	5.5777517e-05
9,487	Preservation of Proximity Privacy in Publishing Numerical Sensitive Data	2008	SIGMOD	5.2634238e-05
12,468	Fragments and Loose Associations: Respecting Privacy in Data Publishing	2010	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
70	Privacy-Preserving Data Mining	2000	SIGMOD	0.0003804755
123	Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy	2003	PODS	0.00031082693
218	Limiting Privacy Breaches in Privacy Preserving Data Mining	2003	PODS	0.00024420564
244	On the Design and Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms	2001	PODS	0.00023476901
384	On the Complexity of Optimal K-Anonymity	2004	PODS	0.00019510305
450	Incognito: Efficient Full-Domain K-Anonymity	2005	SIGMOD	0.00018155142
965	User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data	2000	VLDB	0.00012933878
1,088	A Formal Analysis of Information Disclosure in Data Exchange	2004	SIGMOD	0.00012248135
1,817	On k-Anonymity and the Curse of Dimensionality	2005	VLDB	9.6832973e-05
2,401	Simulatable Auditing	2005	PODS	8.6299652e-05

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