International Business Machines Corporation
Coordinated de-identification of a dataset across a network

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided. A network device receives, from a client device, a description of a dataset to be de-identified, and a list of one or more data de-identification techniques selected from groups consisting of a group of data masking techniques and a group of data pseudonymization techniques, and their configuration options supported by the client device. A first technique, from the at least one group of techniques and its configuration options supported by the client device and the network device are determined. The network device receives a dataset produced at the client device by applying the first technique and selected configuration options to corresponding attributes from the client device. The network device applies a de-identification technique to the dataset to produce a resulting set of de-identified data, wherein the de-identification technique is coordinated with the first technique and its configuration options to de-identify the dataset.