This chapter provides an overview of the data matching process, and describes the five
major steps involved in this process: data pre-processing (cleaning and standardisation) …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Background Combining multiple databases with disjunctive or additional information on the
same person is occurring increasingly throughout research. If unique identification numbers …

Private record linkage (PRL) is the problem of identifying pairs of records that are similar as
per an input matching rule from databases held by two parties that do not trust one another …

For over fifty years,“record linkage” procedures have been refined to integrate data in the
face of typographical and semantic errors. These procedures are traditionally performed …

Record linkage has a long tradition in both the statistical and the computer science literature.
We survey current approaches to the record linkage problem in a privacy-aware setting and …

Social network sites (SNS) allow users to share information with friends, family, and other
contacts. However, current SNS sites such as Facebook or Twitter assume that users trust …

Nowadays, new laws and regulations, such as the European General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), require companies to define privacy policies complying with the …

In many aspects of everyday life, from education to health care and from economics to
homeland security, information exchange involving companies or government agencies has …

We address the problem of data linkage and data extraction across database tables of
sensitive information about individuals, in an environment of constraints on organisations' …