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Course Week 10 : Assignment 10
outline Your last recorded submission was on 2025-09-23, 19:45 Due date: 2025-10-01, 23:59 IST.
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1) ______ is the phenomenon where individuals claim to value privacy, yet in practice, 1 point
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they trade their personal data for trivial benefits or fail to use measures to protect their privacy.
How does an Privacy Fatigue
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course Privacy Paradox
work? () Privacy Breach
Week 1 () 2) Which of the following is not true: 1 point
Week 2 () Personally Identifiable Information (PII) refers to any data that can be linked to a specific
individual and used to reveal or misuse their identity
Week 3 () A social security number (SSN) can be considered as a sensitive PII
A person’s medical records can be considered as a non-sensitive PII
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Non-sensitive PII would not cause significant harm to a person if leaked or stolen
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3) Which of the following best distinguishes the Right to Privacy from the Right to 1 point
Anonymity?
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Privacy is about preventing identity disclosure, while anonymity is about protecting
Week 7 () personal information
Privacy ensures control over personal data and how it is shared, while anonymity
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ensures that actions cannot be traced back to an identifiable individual
Week 9 () Privacy is a technical safeguard, while anonymity is a legal right
Privacy applies only to digital data, while anonymity applies only to physical identity
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Privacy 4) True or False: Personal data that has been de-identified, encrypted or 1 point
Assessment submitted. pseudonymised, but can be used to re-identify a person, remains personal data and falls within
regulation -
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Part 02 (unit? 5) ______ has been defined as the intentional concealment of information. 1 point
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Anonymity
Privacy
regulation - Confidentiality
Part 03 (unit? Secrecy
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6) British law embraces privacy as _________. 1 point
Lecture
Material - Security
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Confidentiality
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7) Which of the statements about pseudonymization is true? 1 point
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Pseudonymization is a technique proposed by frameworks like Privacy by Design offering
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practical substitutes for using the raw data, especially when this data is sensitive
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unit=65&lesso Various pseudonymization techniques enable you to preserve format or understand the
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Quiz: Week Pseudonymization methods often maintain the capability to establish connections
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Assignment other sensitive columns
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8) Differential privacy is: 1 point
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A method of probabilistically limiting the amount of information an attacker can gain when
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data is released
Text A method for measuring and monitoring the loss of privacy experienced by an individual
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() One of the most effective methods for providing individuals in a dataset with plausible
deniability while still performing data analysis
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9) Which of the following statement is not true about k-anonymity? 1 point
k-anonymity is an intuitive and widely used method for modifying data for privacy
protection
For k-anonymity to be achieved, there need to be at least k+1 individuals in the dataset
who share the set of attributes that might become identifying for each individual
Generalization is a method for achieving K-Anonymity
k-anonymity can be provided by using suppression techniques
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X 10) Which of the following statements is/are correct ? (Select all that apply. More than 1 point
one answer may be possible)
Privacy-preserving data mining enables the extraction of insights from datasets while
ensuring that the identities of data subjects or confidential information remain undisclosed
Randomization, anonymyzation and encryption are methods of privacy-preserving data
mining.
The goal of privacy-preserving data mining is to develop data mining methods without
increasing the risk of misuse of the data
Privacy-preserving data mining remove irrelevant data before mining
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