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CHICAGO — The personal data of about 2,000 Lurie Children’s Surgical Foundation patients was leaked earlier this year following a security breach in the foundation’s billing software. Patients affected by the breach saw their Social Security numbers leaked to a still-unknown party, along with their names, dates of birth and addresses. The breach took place between March 29 and April 14 of this ...

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The personal data of about 2,000 Lurie Children’s Surgical Foundation patients was leaked earlier this year following a security breach in the foundation’s billing software. Patients affected by the breach saw their Social Security numbers leaked to a still-unknown party, along with their names, dates of birth and addresses. The breach took place between March 29 and April 14 of this year, and ...

Privacy concerns pertaining to the release of confidential micro-level information are increasingly relevant to organisations and institutions. Controlling the dissemination of disclosure-prone micro-data by means of suppression, aggregation and perturbation techniques often entails different levels of effectiveness and drawbacks depending on the context and properties of the data. In this dissertation, we briefly review existing disclosure control methods for microdata and undertake a study demonstrating the applicability of micro-data methods to proportion data. This is achieved by using the...