Open AccessA New Geometric Data Perturbation Method for Data Anonymization Based on Random Number Generators
Author(s) -
Merve Kanmaz,
Muhammed Ali Aydın,
Ahmet Sertbaş
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of web engineering/journal of web engineering on line
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1544-5976
pISSN - 1540-9589
DOI - 10.13052/jwe1540-9589.20613
Subject(s) - computer science , data mining , random noise , gaussian , noise (video) , valuation (finance) , algorithm , artificial intelligence , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , economics , image (mathematics)
With the technology’s rapid development and its involvement in all areas of our lives, the volume and value of data have become a significant field of study. Valuation of the data to this extent has produced some consequences in terms of people’s knowledge. Data anonymization is the most important of these issues in terms of the security of personal data. Much work has been done in this area and continues to being done. In this study, we proposed a method called RSUGP for the anonymization of sensitive attributes. A new noise model based on random number generators has been proposed instead of the Gaussian noise or random noise methods, which are being used conventionally in geometric data perturbation. We tested our proposed RSUGP method with six different databases and four different classification methods for classification accuracy and attack resistance; then, we presented the results section. Experiments show that the proposed method was more successful than the other two classification accuracy, attack resistance, and runtime.