Securing history: Privacy and accountability in database systems

Summary: Analyzes the privacy–accountability tension in historical DBs, identifying unintended data retention and disclosure risks across storage, logging, and query components. Proposes redesigns and new system features to eliminate covert retention while enabling controlled, auditable history. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 98
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.7303405e-05
Overall Rank: 6,976 | 52.14%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
2. Brian Levine (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
3. Patrick Stahlberg (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{miklau_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{Securing history: Privacy and accountability in database systems}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Miklau, Gerome and Levine, Brian and Stahlberg, Patrick},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,803	DF-Toolkit: Interacting with Low-Level Database Storage	2020	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
331	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00020936658
620	On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views	2002	PODS	0.00015703409
701	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014870915
1,210	Immortal DB: Transaction Time Support for SQL Server	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011656235
2,134	Provenance Management in Curated Databases	2006	SIGMOD	9.1154913e-05
4,387	Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems	2007	SIGMOD	6.7308761e-05

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