Confidentiality and Disclosure Limitation

confidentiality Broadly, a quality or condition accorded to statistical information as an obligation not to transmit that information to an unauthorized party. contingency table A cross-classified table of counts according to two or more categorical variables. data masking The disclosure limitation process of transforming a data set when there is a specific functional relationship (possibly stochastic) between the masked values and the original data. disclosure The inappropriate attribution of information to a data provider, whether it be an individual or organization. disclosure limitation The broad array of methods used to protect confidentiality of statistical data. perturbation An approach to data masking in which the transformation involves random perturbations of the original data, either through the addition of noise or via some form of restricted randomization. privacy In the context of data, usually the right of individuals to control the dissemination of information about themselves.