How Does K-Anonymity Help to Protect Privacy in Micro Data

question 33

Multiple Choice

How does k-anonymity help to protect privacy in micro data sets?

• A) By ensuring that every record in a set is part of a group of "k" records having similar identifying information.
• B) By switching values between records in order to preserve most statistics while still maintaining privacy.
• C) By adding sufficient noise to the data in order to hide the impact of any one individual.
• D) By top-coding all age data above a value of "k."

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