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Work in the Data Privacy Lab on Genomic (genetic and DNA) privacy has sought answers to the following questions:
- Suppose you have sequenced DNA for a population. How can the DNA sequences be re-identified to the people who are the subjects of the DNA?
Answers: see Inference attack using medical information, Trail re-identification attack, and CleanGene.
- What are good and bad privacy practices for sharing DNA sequences?
Answers: see Evaluation of the Current State of Genomic Data Privacy Protection Technology and How (not) to protect genomic data privacy in a distributed network.
- What are methods for sharing DNA information with provable guarantees of privacy protection?
Answers: work in progress!Keywords: DNA privacy, genetic privacy, genomic privacy, privacy technology
Related Publications
- Malin, B. An Evaluation of the Current State of Genomic Data Privacy Protection Technology and a Roadmap for the Future. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Accepted 2004. Also available on MEDLINE.
- Malin, B. and Sweeney, L. How (not) to protect genomic data privacy in a distributed network: using trail re-identification to evaluate and design anonymity protection systems. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2004; 37(3): 179-192. Also available on MEDLINE. Best Paper of the Year Award.
- Malin, B. and Sweeney, L. Inferring Genotype from Clinical Phenotype through a Knowledge Based Algorithm. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002, R.B. Altman et al. (Eds.)(World Scientific, Singapore, 2002). Also available on MEDLINE.
- Malin, B. and Sweeney, L. Re-Identification of DNA through an Automated Linkage Process. Proceedings, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Washington, DC: Hanley & Belfus, Inc. Nov 2001; 423-427.
- Malin, B. and Sweeney, L. Determining the Identifiability of DNA Database Entries. Proceedings, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Washington, DC: Hanley & Belfus, Inc. Nov 2000; 537-541.
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