A Survey on Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining

Businesses share data, outsourcing for specific business problems. Large companies stake a large part of their business on analysis of private data. Consulting firms often handle sensitive third party data as part of client projects. Organizations face great risks while sharing their data. Most of this sharing takes place with little secrecy. It also increases the legal responsibility of the parties involved in the process. So, it is crucial to reliably protect their data due to legal and customer concerns. In this paper, a review of the state-of-the-art methods for privacy preservation is presented. It also analyzes the techniques for privacy preserving association rule mining and points out their merits and demerits. Finally the challenges and directions for future research are discussed.