A Differential Privacy-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing Algorithm for Transit Smart Card Data

Abstract

This manuscript is focused on transit smart card data and finds that the release of such trajectory information after simple anonymization creates high concern about breaching privacy. Trajectory data is large-scale, high-dimensional, and sparse in nature and, thus, requires an efficient privacy-preserving data publishing (PPDP) algorithm with high data utility. This paper describes the investigation of the publication of non-interactive sanitized trajectory data under a Differential Privacy (DP) definition. To this end, a new prefix tree structure, an incremental privacy budget allocation model, and a spatial-temporal dimensionality reduction model are proposed to enhance the sanitized data utility as well as to improve runtime efficiency. The developed algorithm is implemented and applied to real-life metro smart card data from Shenzhen, China, which includes a total of 2.8 million individual travelers and over 220 million records. Numerical analysis finds that, compared with previous work, the proposed model outputs sanitized dataset with higher utilities, and the algorithm is more efficient and scalable.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Comments

Research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61876043 , 61472089); NSFC -Guangdong Joint Found (Grant No. U1501254); Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Cyber-Physical System (2016B030301008).

Keywords and Phrases

Differential Privacy (DP); Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing (PPDP); Trajectory Data; Transit Smart Card

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0968-090X

Document Type

Article - Journal

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jun 2020

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