Synonyms
Statistical disclosure control (SDC); Statistical disclosure limitation (SDL)
Definition
Inference control in databases, also known as Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC), is a discipline that seeks to protect data so they can be published without revealing confidential information that can be linked to specific individuals among those to which the data correspond. SDC is applied to protect respondent privacy in areas such as official statistics, health statistics, e-commerce (sharing of consumer data), etc. Since data protection ultimately means data modification, the challenge for SDC is to achieve protection with minimum loss of the accuracy sought by database users.
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Domingo-Ferrer, J. (2018). Inference Control in Statistical Databases. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_203
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