PDPT publications

2016

  • Elliot, M.J., Mackey, E., O’Shea S., Tudor, C. and Spicer, K. (2016, Accepted) ‘Open Data or End User License: A Penetration Test.’ Journal of Official Statistics.

2015

  • Ritchie, F. and Elliot, M. J. (2015) ’Principles- versus Rules-Based Output Statistical Disclosure Control in Re-mote Access Environments’. IASSIST Quarterly 39(2); 6-14
  • Shlomo, N., Antal, L. and Elliot, M.J. (2015) ‘Measuring Disclosure Risk and Data Utility for Flexible Table Generators’ Journal of Official Statistics 31(2) 305-324
  • Dibben, C., Elliot, M. J., Gowans, H. and Lightfoot, D. (2015) ‘The Data Linkage Environment’ in Methodological Developments in Data Linkage; Harron, K. Goldstien H. and Dibben, C. (eds) 36-62 Wiley
  • Purdam K. and Elliot, M.J. (2015) ‘The Changing Social Data Landscape’ in Halfpenny, P. and Procter, R. (eds.) Innovation in Digital Research Methods. 25-58 London: Sage
  • Elliot, M. J. and Purdam K. (2015) ‘Exploiting new sources of data’ in Halfpenny, P. and Procter, R. (eds.) Innovation in Digital Research Methods. 59-83 London: Sage
  • Elliot, M.J. Dibben, C., Gowans, H. Lightfoot, D., Mackey, E., O’Hara, K., and Purdam K. (2015) Functional Anonymisation and the Role of the Data Environment in Deter-mining the Classification of Data as (Non) Personal; CMI working paper 2015-02
  • Samani, S., Huang, Z., Ayday, E., Fellay, J., Elliot, M. J., Hubaux, J. P., & Kutalik, Z. (2015) Quantifying Genomic Privacy via Inference Attack with High-Order SNV Correlations. In proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (in conjunction with IEEE S&P; 2015)
  • Antal, L., Shlomo, N., and Elliot, M.J. (2015)’Disclosure Risk Measurement with Entropy in Two-Dimensional Sample Based Frequency Tables’ In proceedings of the UNECE worksession on statistical confidentiality, Helsinki, September 2015.
  • Shlomo, N., and Antal, L. and Elliot, M. J. (2015) ‘Disclosure Risk Measurement with Entropy in Sample Based Frequency Tables’ In Proc. NTTS.

2014

  • Antal, L and Shlomo, N. and Elliot, M. J. (2014) ‘Measuring Disclosure Risk with Entropy in Population Based Frequency Tables.’ In proceedings of Privacy in Statistical Databases, Eivissa September 2014
  • Samani, S. Elliot, M. J. and Brass, A. (2014) ‘A Scenario Analysis of Privacy Attacks either on or using Genomic Data.’ In proceedings of Privacy in Statistical Databases, Eivissa September 2014.
  • Elliot, M. J. Mackey, E. O’Shea, S., Spicer, K. and Tudor, C. (2014) EUL to OGD: A simulated attack on two social survey datasets. In proceedings of Privacy in Statistical Databases, Eivissa September 2014.
  • Elliot, M. J. and Mackey, E. (2014) ‘The Social Data Environment’ in O’Hara, K , David, S.L., de Roure, D. Nguyen, C. M-H. (eds) Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 253-263
  • Antal, L. and Shlomo, N. and Elliot, M. J. (2014) Measuring Disclosure Risk with Entropy in Population Based Frequency Tables Privacy in Statistical Databases. Springer; Berlin.
  • O’Keefe, C. and Shlomo, N. (2014) A Discussion of the Applicability of Traditional Confidentiality Methods to Personal and Business Data. In PSD’2014 Privacy in Statistical Databases, (Ed. J. Domingo-Ferrer), Springer LNCS 8744, pp. 350-363.
  • Shlomo, N. (2014) Probabilistic Record Linkage for Disclosure risk Assessment. In PSD’2014 Privacy in Statistical Databases, (Ed. J. Domingo-Ferrer), Springer LNCS 8744, pp. 269-282.
  • Elliot, M.J. Singleton, P. Kalra, D. and Smith, D. (2014) ‘Practical Privacy Controls when Re-using Medical Data for Research’ Journal of Healthcare Information Management 28(4) 50-57
  • Smith, D. and Elliot, M. J. (2014) ‘A Graph-based Approach to Key Variable Mapping’ Confidentiality and Privacy. 6(2), 81-115 W

2013

  • Smith, D. and Elliot, M. (Accepted subject to revision) A Graph-based Approach to Key Variable Mapping. Confidentiality and Privacy.
  • Elliot, M., Purdam, K. and Mackey, E. (2013) Data Horizons - New Forms of Data For Social Research. ESRC.
  • Babu, K.S., Reddy, N., Kumar, N., Elliot, M., Jena, S. K (2013) Achieving k-Anonymity Using Improved Greedy Heuristics for Very Large Relational Databases. Transactions in Data Privacy. 6(1),1-17
  • Mackey, E. and Elliot, M. (2013) Understanding the Data Environment? XRDS 20(1) 37-39
  • Shlomo, N., and Antal, L. and Elliot, M.J. (2013) Disclosure risk and data utility in flexible table generators. In Proc. NTTS.
  • Shadbolt, N., Elliot, M. J. O'Hara, K., Atz, U., Tennison, J., Tudor, C., & Mackey, E. (2013) ‘Anonymisation in the Modern Era’ Data Protection Law and Policy. 10(12); 8-9

2012

  • Elliot, M., D. Kalra, P. Singleton and D. Smith (2012) Statistical Disclosure Control and Protecting Privacy within a Clinical Data Warehouse - CCSR Paper 2012-07.
  • Skinner, C.J. and Shlomo, N. (2012) Estimating Frequencies of Frequencies in Finite Populations. Statistics and Probability Letters Vol. 82, 2206-2212.
  • Shlomo, N. and Skinner, C.J. (2012) Privacy Protection from Sampling and Perturbation in Survey Microdata, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, Vol. 4, Issue 1.
  • O'Keefe, C.M. and Shlomo, N. (2012) Comparison of Remote Analysis with Statistical Disclosure Control for Protecting the Confidentiality of Business Data, Transactions on Data Privacy, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 403-432.