Geolocation with respect to personal privacy for the Allergy Diary app - a MASK study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40413-018-0194-3" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40413-018-0194-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40413-018-0194-3" target="_blank" >10.1186/s40413-018-0194-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geolocation with respect to personal privacy for the Allergy Diary app - a MASK study

Original language description

Background: Collecting data on the localization of users is a key issue for the MASK (Mobile Airways Sentinel networK: the Allergy Diary) App. Data anonymization is a method of sanitization for privacy. The European Commission’s Article 29 Working Party stated that geolocation information is personal data. To assess geolocation using the MASK method and to compare two anonymization methods in the MASK database to find an optimal privacy method. Methods: Geolocation was studied for all people who used the Allergy Diary App from December 2015 to November 2017 and who reported medical outcomes. Two different anonymization methods have been evaluated: Noise addition (randomization) and k-anonymity (generalization). Results: Ninety-three thousand one hundred and sixteen days of VAS were collected from 8535 users and 54,500 (58. 5 %) were geolocalized, corresponding to 5428 users. Noise addition was found to be less accurate than k-anonymity using MASK data to protect the users’ life privacy. Discussion: k-anonymity is an acceptable method for the anonymization of MASK data and results can be used for other databases.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30203 - Respiratory systems

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

World Allergy Organization Journal

ISSN

1939-4551

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000438717200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85050107373