Full-scale privacy preserving for association rule mining

Privacy has become an important issue in Data Mining. Many methods have been brought out to solve this problem. This paper deals with the problem of association rule mining which preserve the confidentiality of each database. In order to find the association rule, each participant has to share their own data. Thus, much privacy information may be broadcasted or been illegal used. These issues can be divided into three categories: data hiding, knowledge hiding and data mining results publishing. This paper reviews the major method of privacy preserving on each category and choose some of them to complete our system. At the end, an improvement of sensitive rules hiding is proposed to make it more accuracy and security.