TY - GEN
T1 - Anonymisation vs. pseudonymisation
T2 - International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2009
AU - Tinabo, Rose
AU - Mtenzi, Fred
AU - O'Shea, Brendan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Due to sensitivity nature of the data in e-healthcare and the need of these data to different "Healthcare Team", privacy is one of the important issues to consider for its use. Without highly consideration of privacy issues, available data will not be useful. This results in introduction of different techniques that insist privacy protection. Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation are the main methods in privacy protection. Even though they both protect privacy, their usefulness may vary depending on the usage of the data, therefore users must be able to choose a technique to use. This paper compares characteristics of anonymisation and pseudonymisation techniques in e-healthcare. Depending on characteristics of e-healthcare data, authors proposes the use of pseudonymisation (the use of false names (pseudonym)), technique rather than anonymisation (without name) technique in e-healthcare as it will allow usage of the data to different "Healthcare Team" while protecting privacy of an individual. Also the use of different techniques to "Healthcare Team" has been proposed.
AB - Due to sensitivity nature of the data in e-healthcare and the need of these data to different "Healthcare Team", privacy is one of the important issues to consider for its use. Without highly consideration of privacy issues, available data will not be useful. This results in introduction of different techniques that insist privacy protection. Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation are the main methods in privacy protection. Even though they both protect privacy, their usefulness may vary depending on the usage of the data, therefore users must be able to choose a technique to use. This paper compares characteristics of anonymisation and pseudonymisation techniques in e-healthcare. Depending on characteristics of e-healthcare data, authors proposes the use of pseudonymisation (the use of false names (pseudonym)), technique rather than anonymisation (without name) technique in e-healthcare as it will allow usage of the data to different "Healthcare Team" while protecting privacy of an individual. Also the use of different techniques to "Healthcare Team" has been proposed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950330795&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/icitst.2009.5402501
DO - 10.1109/icitst.2009.5402501
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950330795
SN - 9781424456482
T3 - International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2009
BT - International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2009
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 9 November 2009 through 12 November 2009
ER -