Controlling access to de-identified data sets based on a risk of re-identification

Abstract

A system may receive, from one or more data sources, one or more de-identified data sets that include de-identified personal data. The system may receive a request for a feature set of the one or more de-identified data sets, wherein the feature set includes a set of quasi-identifiers included in the de-identified personal data. The system may calculate a re-identification risk score for the set of quasi-identifiers. The system may selectively output, based on the re-identification risk score, one of: actual data, from the one or more de-identified data sets, of the feature set if the re-identification risk score satisfies a condition, or synthetic data, generated by the device from the one or more de-identified data sets, for the feature set, or a combination of the synthetic data and the actual data for the feature set, if the re-identification risk score does not satisfy the condition.