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1、WP.3ENGLISHONLYUNITEDNATIONSSTATISTICALCOMMISSIONandEUROPEANCOMMISSIONECONOMICCOMMISSIONFOREUROPESTATISTICALOFFICEOFTHECONFERENCEOFEUROPEANSTATISTICIANSEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES(EUROSTAT)JointUNECE/Eurostatworksessiononstatisticaldataconfidentiality(Manchester,UnitedKingdom,17-19Dece
2、mber2007)Topic(i):MicrodataMICRODATASHARINGVIAPSEUDONYMIZATIONInvitedPaperPreparedbyDavidGalindo,UniversityofMalaga,SpainandEricR.Verheul,RadboudUniversityNijmegen,PricewaterhouseCoopersAdvisory,NetherlandsMicrodatasharingviapseudonymizationDavidGalindo∗,EricR.Verheul∗∗,∗∗∗∗Dep
3、artmentofComputerScience,UniversityofMalaga,Spain.(dgalindo@lcc.uma.es)∗∗InstituteforComputingandInformationSciences,RadboudUniversityNijmegen,TheNetherlands.(eric.verheul@cs.ru.nl)∗∗∗PricewaterhouseCoopersAdvisory,TheNetherlands.(eric.verheul@nl.pwc.com)Abstract.Individualdata
4、recordsareessentialforempiricalresearch,andyetduetotheverypreciousinformationtheycontain,theirreleaseposesaproblemtotheconfiden-tialityoftheindividualsconcerned.Inthispaperwegiveahighleveldescriptionofaprivacy-preservingmicrodatasharingsystemwhereinsubjectsidentifiersarereplacedb
5、ycryptographicpseudonyms.Theresultingsystemfacilitatesinformationsharingbetweenorganizationsthattypicallyarenotallowedtoexchangethemicrodatatheyown.1IntroductionIndividualdatarecordsareessentialforempiricalresearch,andyetduetotheverypreciousinformationtheycontain,theirdirectrel
6、easethwartstheconfidentialityoftheindividualsconcerned.Thefactthatresearchisinterestedincollectivefeaturesratherthanindividualdistinctiveness,makesitpossibletoreconciledatautilityandindividualconfidentiality:dataidentifierscanberemovedorencodedanddatafieldscanbemodifiedbymeansofstat
7、isticaldisclosurecontrols,whileoverallthecollectivefeaturesoftheresultingde-identifieddataarepreserved.Microdatacomesfromheterogenoussources,suchasstatisticaloffices,hospitalsorinsurancecompaniestonameafew.Thereareanumberofparties,namedasResearchers,interestedingettingaccesstothis
8、dataforeconomicalorresearchpurposes.Inthecaseofnationa