Inference threat

Overview of Inference Threat

An inference threat is a attack that attempts to infer sensitive information about an individual(s) from data. 

As more and more data is collected and made available online as aggregate information, inference attack try to identify individuals from such dataset. 

Approaches and Algorithms to use

There are privacy preserving algorithms that can be used to protect from inference attacks

1. K anonymity

2. L Diversity

3. T closeness