High Accuracy Data Anonymization

AMNESIA is a service that allows users to anonymize their data by using data anonymization algorithms.

  • For
    Research Communities | Research Organisations | Researchers | Businesses
  • TRL
    8 - system complete and qualified
  • Access Type
    Virtual
  • Access Mode
    Free
  • Owned by
    Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information and Communication Technologies
  • Provided by
    Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information and Communication Technologies
  • Funded by
    The framework programme for research and innovation (H2020)
  • Terms of use

Amnesia modifies personal and sensitive information, eliminates any data privacy breach and exposure of sensitive information. Installed, configured and embedded locally in research operational workflows, it processes and stores files adapting to different needs and dataflows. It uses a variety of algorithms, pseudonymization, k-anonymity and km-anonymity guarantees and demographic statistics to reduce information loss. Amnesia is written in Java and is available to be downloaded for Linux/Windows OS.


Benefits

Overcome legal barrier to share data
Unlock sensitive data analysis
Anonymise with guarantees
No links to the original data, with minimal reduction of information quality and consistency
Save time and resources
Reduce effort needed to extract value from big datasets
Customise to your needs
Use locally without exposing data to the internet
Enhanced security
Safeguards against data misuse and exploitation risks

Features

High dimensional data anonymisation

Runs k^m-anonymity for high dimensional data

Standards,GDPR & FAIR compliance

Supports FAIR and GDPR compliance

Transparent integration

integrated into systems and apps via REST API

Agile Compatibility

Adjustable settings with support for Zenodo, OpenAIRE, Dataverse,etc.

Hierarchies

Persistent generation of hierarchies and semi-automatic hierarchy generation

User friendly

Anonymization tailored to user needs through a graphical interface

Used in

  • Covid-19
    Covid-19
    A use case developed for demonstration purposes during the European Commission's EUvsVirus Hackathon
  • Become GDPR compliant
    Become GDPR compliant
    Training courses in data privacy, by the Masters on Business Analytics of AUEB
  • High Usability & Flexibility
    High Usability & Flexibility
    Supported an ecosystem for safely exchanging medical data including personal details and ICD10 and ICD9 codes for diagnoses
  • Decido
    Decido
    Public Authorities Data Workflows for immediate anonymization with guarantees

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Use Cases

  • Covid-19
    Covid-19
    A use case developed for demonstration purposes during the European Commission's EUvsVirus Hackathon
  • Become GDPR compliant
    Become GDPR compliant
    Training courses in data privacy, by the Masters on Business Analytics of AUEB
  • High Usability & Flexibility
    High Usability & Flexibility
    Supported an ecosystem for safely exchanging medical data including personal details and ICD10 and ICD9 codes for diagnoses
  • Decido
    Decido
    Public Authorities Data Workflows for immediate anonymization with guarantees
OpenAIRE Service Catalogue receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under OpenAIRE-Advance (No. 777541) and OpenAIRE Nexus (No. 101017452)