2017-12-26
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The author proposed the scalable form of top-down specialization one the most popular anonymization technique. They have implemented TDS using Hadoop and claim that it provides same level of anonymization with low information loss. However, it is been observed that it requires all the data at the initial stage to generate taxonomy tree. It also suffers from data distribution problem of Hadoop.