Choosing the right technique

• contextual factors are important (e.g., sampling strategy (Guo et al. 2025), release type of data (Benschop and Welch, n.d.))

Determine relevant factors of the data

Create some kind of decision tree/checklist to choose techniques

Learning Objective

• After completing this part of the tutorial, you will be able to choose a suitable technique based on your data.

Exercises

• Give examples of datasets and ask for the best anonymization strategy

Resources, Links, Examples

Benschop, Thijs, and Matthew Welch. n.d. “Statistical Disclosure Control for Microdata: A Practice Guide for sdcMicro.” https://sdcpractice.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.

Guo, Wentao, Paige Pepitone, Adam J Aviv, and Michelle L Mazurek. 2025. “USENIX Security Symposium.” In. Seattle, WA, USA. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity25-guo-wentao.pdf.