02380nas a2200169   4500008004100000245004700041210004500088300001600133490000700149520190300156100001702059700002602076700001902102700002002121700002102141856004802162       2015                        eng d00aDiscrimination- and privacy-aware patterns0 aDiscrimination and privacyaware patterns  a1733–17820 v293 aData mining is gaining societal momentum due to the ever increasing availability of large amounts of human data, easily collected by a variety of sensing technologies. We are therefore faced with unprecedented opportunities and risks: a deeper understanding of human behavior and how our society works is darkened by a greater chance of privacy intrusion and unfair discrimination based on the extracted patterns and profiles. Consider the case when a set of patterns extracted from the personal data of a population of individual persons is released for a subsequent use into a decision making process, such as, e.g., granting or denying credit. First, the set of patterns may reveal sensitive information about individual persons in the training population and, second, decision rules based on such patterns may lead to unfair discrimination, depending on what is represented in the training cases. Although methods independently addressing privacy or discrimination in data mining have been proposed in the literature, in this context we argue that privacy and discrimination risks should be tackled together, and we present a methodology for doing so while publishing frequent pattern mining results. We describe a set of pattern sanitization methods, one for each discrimination measure used in the legal literature, to achieve a fair publishing of frequent patterns in combination with two possible privacy transformations: one based on k-anonymity and one based on differential privacy. Our proposed pattern sanitization methods based on k-anonymity yield both privacy- and discrimination-protected patterns, while introducing reasonable (controlled) pattern distortion. Moreover, they obtain a better trade-off between protection and data quality than the sanitization methods based on differential privacy. Finally, the effectiveness of our proposals is assessed by extensive experiments. 1 aHajian, Sara1 aDomingo-Ferrer, Josep1 aMonreale, Anna1 aPedreschi, Dino1 aGiannotti, Fosca  uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10618-014-0393-701456nas a2200145   4500008004100000245006500041210006400106260003300170520092200203100002401125700001701149700002001166700002201186856010201208       2014                        eng d00aAnti-discrimination analysis using privacy attack strategies0 aAntidiscrimination analysis using privacy attack strategies  bSpringer, Berlin, Heidelberg3 aSocial discrimination discovery from data is an important task to identify illegal and unethical discriminatory patterns towards protected-by-law groups, e.g., ethnic minorities. We deploy privacy attack strategies as tools for discrimination discovery under hard assumptions which have rarely tackled in the literature: indirect discrimination discovery, privacy-aware discrimination discovery, and discrimination data recovery. The intuition comes from the intriguing parallel between the role of the anti-discrimination authority in the three scenarios above and the role of an attacker in private data publishing. We design strategies and algorithms inspired/based on Frèchet bounds attacks, attribute inference attacks, and minimality attacks to the purpose of unveiling hidden discriminatory practices. Experimental results show that they can be effective tools in the hands of anti-discrimination authorities.1 aRuggieri, Salvatore1 aHajian, Sara1 aKamiran, Faisal1 aZhang, Xiangliang  uhttps://kdd.isti.cnr.it/publications/anti-discrimination-analysis-using-privacy-attack-strategies01701nas a2200157   4500008003900000245002700039210002700066300001400093520128600107100001701393700001901410700002001429700002601449700002101475856004701496       2014                          d00aFair pattern discovery0 aFair pattern discovery  a113–1203 aData mining is gaining societal momentum due to the ever increasing availability of large amounts of human data, easily collected by a variety of sensing technologies. We are assisting to unprecedented opportunities of understanding human and society behavior that unfortunately is darkened by several risks for human rights: one of this is the unfair discrimination based on the extracted patterns and profiles. Consider the case when a set of patterns extracted from the personal data of a population of individual persons is released for subsequent use in a decision making process, such as, e.g., granting or denying credit. Decision rules based on such patterns may lead to unfair discrimination, depending on what is represented in the training cases. In this context, we address the discrimination risks resulting from publishing frequent patterns. We present a set of pattern sanitization methods, one for each discrimination measure used in the legal literature, for fair (discrimination-protected) publishing of frequent pattern mining results. Our proposed pattern sanitization methods yield discrimination-protected patterns, while introducing reasonable (controlled) pattern distortion. Finally, the effectiveness of our proposals is assessed by extensive experiments.1 aHajian, Sara1 aMonreale, Anna1 aPedreschi, Dino1 aDomingo-Ferrer, Josep1 aGiannotti, Fosca  uhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2554850.255504301411nas a2200157   4500008003900000245007400039210006900113300001400182520091000196100001701106700001901123700002001142700002601162700002101188856004401209       2012                          d00aInjecting Discrimination and Privacy Awareness Into Pattern Discovery0 aInjecting Discrimination and Privacy Awareness Into Pattern Disc  a360–3693 aData mining is gaining societal momentum due to the ever increasing availability of large amounts of human data, easily collected by a variety of sensing technologies. Data mining comes with unprecedented opportunities and risks: a deeper understanding of human behavior and how our society works is darkened by a greater chance of privacy intrusion and unfair discrimination based on the extracted patterns and profiles. Although methods independently addressing privacy or discrimination in data mining have been proposed in the literature, in this context we argue that privacy and discrimination risks should be tackled together, and we present a methodology for doing so while publishing frequent pattern mining results. We describe a combined pattern sanitization framework that yields both privacy and discrimination-protected patterns, while introducing reasonable (controlled) pattern distortion.1 aHajian, Sara1 aMonreale, Anna1 aPedreschi, Dino1 aDomingo-Ferrer, Josep1 aGiannotti, Fosca  uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2012.51