Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Publication Title

Intelligent Data Analysis

Abstract

Traditional research on preserving privacy in data mining focuses on time-invariant privacy issues. With the emergence of time series data mining, traditional snapshot-based privacy issues need to be extended to be multi-dimensional with the addition of time dimension. We find current techniques to preserve privacy in data mining are not effective in preserving time-domain privacy. We present the data flow separation attack on privacy in time series data mining, which is based on blind source separation techniques from statistical signal processing. Our experiments with real data show that this attack is effective. By combining the data flow separation method and the frequency matching method, an attacker can identify data sources and compromise time-domain privacy. We propose possible countermeasures to the data flow separation attack in the paper.

Original Citation

Y. Zhu, Y. Fu and H. Fu, "A new class of attacks on time series data mining\m{1}," Intelligent Data Analysis, vol. 14, pp. 405-418, 06, 2010.

DOI

10.3233/IDA-2010-0428

Version

Postprint

Volume

14

Issue

3

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