scholarly journals Privacy, Risk, Anonymization and Data Sharing in the Internet of Health Things

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liane Colonna

This paper explores a specific risk-mitigation strategy to reduce privacy concerns in the Internet of Health Things (IoHT): data anonymization. It contributes to the current academic debate surrounding the role of anonymization in the IoHT by evaluating how data controllers can balance privacy risks against the quality of output data and select the appropriate privacy model that achieves the aims underlying the concept of Privacy by Design. It sets forth several approaches for identifying the risk of re-identification in the IoHT as well as explores the potential for synthetic data generation to be used as an alternative method to anonymization for data sharing.

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek K. Jakubowski ◽  
David Pogorzala ◽  
Timothy J. Hattenberger ◽  
Scott D. Brown ◽  
John R. Schott

2004 ◽  
pp. 211-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Girod ◽  
Ramesh Govindan ◽  
Deepak Ganesan ◽  
Deborah Estrin ◽  
Yan Yu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Lyssenko ◽  
Christoph Gladisch ◽  
Christian Heinzemann ◽  
Matthias Woehrle ◽  
Rudolph Triebel

Author(s):  
Daniel Jeske ◽  
Pengyue Lin ◽  
Carlos Rendon ◽  
Rui Xiao ◽  
Behrokh Samadi

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Buckwar ◽  
Massimiliano Tamborrino ◽  
Irene Tubikanec

Abstract Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) has become one of the major tools of likelihood-free statistical inference in complex mathematical models. Simultaneously, stochastic differential equations (SDEs) have developed to an established tool for modelling time-dependent, real-world phenomena with underlying random effects. When applying ABC to stochastic models, two major difficulties arise: First, the derivation of effective summary statistics and proper distances is particularly challenging, since simulations from the stochastic process under the same parameter configuration result in different trajectories. Second, exact simulation schemes to generate trajectories from the stochastic model are rarely available, requiring the derivation of suitable numerical methods for the synthetic data generation. To obtain summaries that are less sensitive to the intrinsic stochasticity of the model, we propose to build up the statistical method (e.g. the choice of the summary statistics) on the underlying structural properties of the model. Here, we focus on the existence of an invariant measure and we map the data to their estimated invariant density and invariant spectral density. Then, to ensure that these model properties are kept in the synthetic data generation, we adopt measure-preserving numerical splitting schemes. The derived property-based and measure-preserving ABC method is illustrated on the broad class of partially observed Hamiltonian type SDEs, both with simulated data and with real electroencephalography data. The derived summaries are particularly robust to the model simulation, and this fact, combined with the proposed reliable numerical scheme, yields accurate ABC inference. In contrast, the inference returned using standard numerical methods (Euler–Maruyama discretisation) fails. The proposed ingredients can be incorporated into any type of ABC algorithm and directly applied to all SDEs that are characterised by an invariant distribution and for which a measure-preserving numerical method can be derived.


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