Geolocation with respect to personal privacy for the Allergy Diary app - a MASK study

D. Samreth S. Arnavielhe 1 F. Ingenrieth A. Bedbrook 1 G. Onorato R. Murray R. Almeida A. Mizani J. Fonseca 2 E. Costa 3 J. Malva M. Almeida A. Pereira A. Todo-Bom 4 E. Menditto 5 C. Stellato M. Ventura 6 D. Larenas-Linnemann M. Fuentes-Pérez R. Huerta-Villalobos A. Cruz R. Stelmach J. da Silva 7 R. Emuzyte 8 V. Kvedariene 8 A. Valiulis 8 Isabella Annesi-Maesano I. Bosse 9 P. Demoly 10 P. Devillier 11 F. Fontaine 12 P. Kuna B. Samolinski L. Klimek 13 R. Mösges 14 O. Pfaar 13 S. Shamai 15 M. Bewick D. Ryan A. Sheikh 16 M. Anto V. Cardona 17 J. Mullol 18 A. Valero N. Chavannes J. Fokkens S. Reitsma R. Roller-Wirnsberger 19 V. Tomazic T. Haahtela 20 S. Toppila-Salmi 20 E. Valovirta 21 M. Makris 22 G. Papadopoulos E. Prokopakis F. Psarros B. Gemicioğlu A. Yorgancioglu C. Bindslev-Jensen E. Eller I. Kull 23 M. Wickman C. Bachert 24 Peter Hellings 25 B. Pugin S. Bosnic-Anticevich 26 R. O’hehir 27 V. Kolek M. Sova K. Wehner G. de Vries M. van Eerd D. Laune 28 J. Wittmann J. Bousquet Pascal Poncelet 29
1 MACVIA-LR - Contre les MAladies Chroniques pour un VIeillissement Actif en Languedoc-Roussillon
2 ULISBOA - Universidade de Lisboa
3 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
4 UC - University of Coimbra [Portugal]
5 "Federico II" University of Naples Medical School
6 MCMP - Microbiologie cellulaire et moléculaire et pathogénicité
7 UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina
8 Vilnius University [Vilnius]
9 CHU Montpellier
10 Département pneumologie et addictologie [Montpellier]
11 Hôpital Foch [Suresnes]
12 UR ETGR (ETNA) - Erosion torrentielle neige et avalanches
13 Heidelberg University
14 University Hospital of Cologne [Cologne]
15 Department of Computer Science [Haifa]
16 University of Edinburgh
17 Vall d'Hebron University Hospital [Barcelona]
18 University of Barcelona
19 University of Graz
20 University of Helsinki
21 University of Turku
22 Department of Cardiovascular Science [Sheffield]
23 IMM - The Institute of Environmental Medicine [Stockholm]
24 Ghent University Hospital
25 University Hospitals Leuven [Leuven]
26 The University of Sydney [Sydney]
27 Monash University [Melbourne]
28 IRIM - Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier
29 ADVANSE - ADVanced Analytics for data SciencE
LIRMM - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
Abstract : Background: Collecting data on the localization of users is a key issue for the MASK (Mobile Airways Sentinel networK: the Allergy Diary) App. Data anonymization is a method of sanitization for privacy. The European Commission’s Article 29 Working Party stated that geolocation information is personal data. To assess geolocation using the MASK method and to compare two anonymization methods in the MASK database to find an optimal privacy method. Methods: Geolocation was studied for all people who used the Allergy Diary App from December 2015 to November 2017 and who reported medical outcomes. Two different anonymization methods have been evaluated: Noise addition (randomization) and k-anonymity (generalization). Results: Ninety-three thousand one hundred and sixteen days of VAS were collected from 8535 users and 54,500 (58. 5%) were geolocalized, corresponding to 5428 users. Noise addition was found to be less accurate than k-anonymity using MASK data to protect the users’ life privacy. Discussion: k-anonymity is an acceptable method for the anonymization of MASK data and results can be used for other databases.
Keywords : App Anonymization Rhinitis Asthma MASK
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D. Samreth, S. Arnavielhe, F. Ingenrieth, A. Bedbrook, G. Onorato, et al.. Geolocation with respect to personal privacy for the Allergy Diary app - a MASK study. World Allergy Organization Journal, BMC, 2018, 11 (1), ⟨10.1186/s40413-018-0194-3⟩. ⟨lirmm-01987859⟩

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