CPC G06F 21/6254 (2013.01) [G06F 17/18 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A computer-implemented method for measuring an impact of a data privacy policy, the method comprising:
sampling a data source to obtain a sample of data that is statistically representative;
determining ridge statistics for the sample of data;
measuring a first entropy of the sample of data;
applying the data privacy policy to the sample of data;
measuring a second entropy of the sample of data with the policy applied;
calculating an information loss value based on the difference between the first entropy and the second entropy; and
presenting the information loss value.
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