“…In such a scenario, the record linkage cannot be fruitfully applied if each source shares dierentially private records. The truthfulness characteristic and the fact that the model was recommended in dierent privacy legislation and guidelines (such as HIPAA [U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2015] and FIPPA [Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, 2016]) contributed to the wide adoption of k-anonymity and multiple algorithms (e.g., [Bayardo and Agrawal, 2005, Byun et al, 2007, Doka et al, 2015, El Emam and Dankar, 2008, Lee et al, 2017, Zhang et al, 2015) have been devised for application of the technique to privacy-sensitive dataset prior to release.…”