Lee Sejong, Kim Yushin, Kwon Yongseok, Cho Sunghyun
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Major in Bio-Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang University, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
PLoS One. 2025 Jan 9;20(1):e0314486. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0314486. eCollection 2025.
Privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) technology, crucial for linking records across datasets while maintaining privacy, is susceptible to graph-based re-identification attacks. These attacks compromise privacy and pose significant risks, such as identity theft and financial fraud. This study proposes a zero-relationship encoding scheme that minimizes the linkage between source and encoded records to enhance PPRL systems' resistance to re-identification attacks. Our method's efficacy was validated through simulations on the Titanic and North Carolina Voter Records (NCVR) datasets, demonstrating a substantial reduction in re-identification rates. Security analysis confirms that our zero-relationship encoding effectively preserves privacy against graph-based re-identification threats, improving PPRL technology's security.
隐私保护记录链接(PPRL)技术对于跨数据集链接记录同时保持隐私至关重要,但容易受到基于图的重新识别攻击。这些攻击会损害隐私并带来重大风险,如身份盗窃和金融欺诈。本研究提出了一种零关系编码方案,该方案可最大限度地减少源记录与编码记录之间的链接,以增强PPRL系统对重新识别攻击的抵抗力。我们通过对泰坦尼克号和北卡罗来纳州选民记录(NCVR)数据集进行模拟验证了该方法的有效性,结果表明重新识别率大幅降低。安全分析证实,我们的零关系编码有效地保护了隐私,抵御基于图的重新识别威胁,提高了PPRL技术的安全性。