To Do or Not To Do: The Dilemma of Disclosing Anonymized Data

Summary: Examines the safety of anonymized data under frequent itemset mining; models attacker priors with belief functions and derives expected cracks across prior classes. Introduces a fast O-estimate heuristic, empirically accurate on real benchmarks, and delivers a practical decision recipe for releasing vs. disclosing risk. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2544168ca4bed284
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.268646e-05
Overall Rank: 8,827 | 40.66%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066165

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia)
2. Raymond T. Ng (University of British Columbia)
3. Ganesh Ramesh (University of British Columbia)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lakshmanan_sigmod05,
        title = {{To Do or Not To Do: The Dilemma of Disclosing Anonymized Data}},
        author = {Lakshmanan, Laks V.S. and Ng, Raymond T. and Ramesh, Ganesh},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066165},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066165},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,296	Attacks on Privacy and deFinetti's Theorem	2009	SIGMOD	8.6789249e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.00064420972
68	Privacy-Preserving Data Mining	2000	SIGMOD	0.00037958605
122	Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy	2003	PODS	0.00030770793
254	On the Design and Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms	2001	PODS	0.00023020039
404	On the Complexity of Optimal K-Anonymity	2004	PODS	0.00019081867
5,855	Secure XML Publishing without Information Leakage in the Presence of Data Inference	2004	VLDB	5.9698375e-05

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