Social scientists increasingly expect to have access to detailed data for research purposes. As the level of detail increases, data providers worry about "spontaneous recognition", the likelihood that a microdata user believes that he or she has accidentally identified one of the data subjects...

Social scientists increasingly expect to have access to detailed data for research purposes. As the level of detail increases, data providers worry about "spontaneous recognition", the likelihood that a microdata user believes that he or she has accidentally identified one of the data subjects...

In recent years, the level of detail in confidential data made available to social scientists has increased dramatically. Much of this has been due to the growth in secure data access facilities, which allow access to the most detailed data under strictly controlled conditions. One element of...

When producing anonymised microdata for research, national statistics institutes (NSIs) identify a number of 'risk scenarios' of how intruders might seek to attack a confidential dataset. This paper argues that the strategy used to identify confidentiality protection measures can be seriously...