Anonymity technologies for privacy-preserving data publishing and mining

Data mining is gaining momentum in society, due to the ever increasing availability of large amounts of data, easily gathered by a variety of collection technologies and stored via computer systems. Data mining is the key step in the process of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, the so-called KDD pro- cess. The knowledge discovered in data by means of sophisticated data mining techniques is leading to a new generation of personalized intelligent services. The dark side of this story is that the very same collection technologies gather personal, often sensitive, data, so that the opportunities of discovering knowl- edge increase hand in hand with the risks of privacy violation.