Segyeong Bang^#, Soeun Kim^#, Gaeun Ahn, Hyemin Hong, Junhyoung Oh^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.3, pp. 4629-4643, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.068221 - 23 October 2025

Abstract This study analyzes the risks of re-identification in Korean text data and proposes a secure, ethical approach to data anonymization. Following the ‘Lee Luda’ AI chatbot incident, concerns over data privacy have increased. The Personal Information Protection Commission of Korea conducted inspections of AI services, uncovering 850 cases of personal information in user input datasets, highlighting the need for pseudonymization standards. While current anonymization techniques remove personal data like names, phone numbers, and addresses, linguistic features such as writing habits and language-specific traits can still identify individuals when combined with other data. To address this,… More >

Zesheng Xi^1,2,#, Chuan He^1,3,#, Yunfan Wang^1,3,#, Bo Zhang^1,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.144, No.2, pp. 2545-2565, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.066822 - 31 August 2025

Abstract The increasing reliance on interconnected Internet of Things (IoT) devices has amplified the demand for robust anonymization strategies to protect device identities and ensure secure communication. However, traditional anonymization methods for IoT networks often rely on static identity models, making them vulnerable to inference attacks through long-term observation. Moreover, these methods tend to sacrifice data availability to protect privacy, limiting their practicality in real-world applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose a dynamic device identity anonymization framework using Moving Target Defense (MTD) principles implemented via Software-Defined Networking (SDN). In our model, the SDN controller periodically… More >

Tatsuhito Hasegawa^#,*, Kyosuke Fujino^#

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 2429-2454, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.066270 - 03 July 2025

Abstract Recent advances in wearable devices have enabled large-scale collection of sensor data across healthcare, sports, and other domains but this has also raised critical privacy concerns, especially under tightening regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which explicitly restrict the processing of data that can re-identify individuals. Although existing anonymization approaches such as the Anonymizing AutoEncoder (AAE) can reduce the risk of re-identification, they often introduce substantial waveform distortions and fail to preserve information beyond a single classification task (e.g., human activity recognition). This study proposes a novel sensor data anonymization method based… More >

Jiacheng Xiong¹, Xingshu Chen^1,2,3,*, Xiao Lan^2,3, Liangguo Chen^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 2273-2303, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063984 - 03 July 2025

Abstract In the era of big data, the growing number of real-time data streams often contains a lot of sensitive privacy information. Releasing or sharing this data directly without processing will lead to serious privacy information leakage. This poses a great challenge to conventional privacy protection mechanisms (CPPM). The existing data partitioning methods ignore the number of data replications and information exchanges, resulting in complex distance calculations and inefficient indexing for high-dimensional data. Therefore, CPPM often fails to meet the stringent requirements of efficiency and reliability, especially in dynamic spatiotemporal environments. Addressing this concern, we proposed… More >

Burak Cem Kara^1,2,*, Can Eyüpoğlu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 1515-1535, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040274 - 30 August 2023

Abstract Developing a privacy-preserving data publishing algorithm that stops individuals from disclosing their identities while not ignoring data utility remains an important goal to achieve. Because finding the trade-off between data privacy and data utility is an NP-hard problem and also a current research area. When existing approaches are investigated, one of the most significant difficulties discovered is the presence of outlier data in the datasets. Outlier data has a negative impact on data utility. Furthermore, k-anonymity algorithms, which are commonly used in the literature, do not provide adequate protection against outlier data. In this study, a… More >

Junhyoung Oh¹, Kyungho Lee^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 3579-3606, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.031491 - 31 October 2022

Abstract As technology develops, the amount of information being used has increased a lot. Every company learns big data to provide customized services with its customers. Accordingly, collecting and analyzing data of the data subject has become one of the core competencies of the companies. However, when collecting and using it, the authority of the data subject may be violated. The data often identifies its subject by itself, and even if it is not a personal information that infringes on an individual’s authority, the moment it is connected, it becomes important and sensitive personal information that… More >

Mohammed BinJubier¹, Mohd Arfian Ismail¹, Abdulghani Ali Ahmed^2,*, Ali Safaa Sadiq³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3665-3686, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024663 - 29 March 2022

Abstract Publishing big data and making it accessible to researchers is important for knowledge building as it helps in applying highly efficient methods to plan, conduct, and assess scientific research. However, publishing and processing big data poses a privacy concern related to protecting individuals’ sensitive information while maintaining the usability of the published data. Several anonymization methods, such as slicing and merging, have been designed as solutions to the privacy concerns for publishing big data. However, the major drawback of merging and slicing is the random permutation procedure, which does not always guarantee complete protection against… More >

U. Selvi^*, S. Pushpa

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.31, No.2, pp. 1185-1196, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.020164 - 22 September 2021

Abstract Due to the recent advancement in technologies, a huge amount of data is generated where individual private information needs to be preserved. A proper Anonymization algorithm with increased Data utility is required to protect individual privacy. However, preserving privacy of individuals whileprocessing huge amount of data is a challenging task, as the data contains certain sensitive information. Moreover, scalability issue in handling a large dataset is found in using existing framework. Many an Anonymization algorithm for Big Data have been developed and under research. We propose a method of applying Machine Learning techniques to protect More >

Pingshui Wang^1,*, Tao Chen^1,2, Zecheng Wang¹

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 61-68, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2019.05943

Abstract In recent years, with the explosive development in Internet, data storage and data processing technologies, privacy preservation has been one of the greater concerns in data mining. A number of methods and techniques have been developed for privacy preserving data mining. This paper provided a wide survey of different privacy preserving data mining algorithms and analyzed the representative techniques for privacy preservation. The existing problems and directions for future research are also discussed. More >