Privacy Preserving Publication of Educational Data

The need for securing data privacy has increased as the online publication of data has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. This situation puts a lot of people at risk of a security breach. K-anonymity, which was the first published method of providing data anonymity is no longer as effective to keep up with the demands of various types of dynamic data, like-medical, transactional, trajectory, educational etc. Research into data privacy has gained more focus to keep up with the demands of time, but educational data is still relatively unexplored. As more of the schooling system is moving online, it caused an increase of research into student’s results. This published academic information can cause a breach of privacy for the students. In our paper, we compare educational data with transactional data and modify the anony method to suit the safe publication of educational data.