De-Health: All Your Online Health Information Are Belong to Us
| Autor: | Ting Wang, Raheem Beyah, Qianjun Liu, Jing Chen, Pan Zhou, Haiqin Weng, Shouling Ji, Qinchen Gu, Zhao Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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020205 medical informatics
Computer science business.industry Internet privacy 02 engineering and technology Linkage (mechanical) law.invention 03 medical and health sciences Information sensitivity 0302 clinical medicine law 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 030212 general & internal medicine Health information business |
| Zdroj: | ICDE |
| Popis: | In this paper, we study the privacy of online health data. We present a novel online health data De-Anonymization (DA) framework, named De-Health. Leveraging two real world online health datasets WebMD and HealthBoards, we validate the DA efficacy of De-Health. We also present a linkage attack framework which can link online health/medical information to real world people. Through a proof-of-concept attack, we link 347 out of 2805 WebMD users to real world people, and find the full names, medical/health information, birthdates, phone numbers, and other sensitive information for most of the re-identified users. This clearly illustrates the fragility of the privacy of those who use online health forums. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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