Can anyone explain to me "T-Closeness" concept in anonymization?

I have read the paper that introduces this concept "t-Closeness:PrivacyBeyondk-Anonymityandℓ-Diversity" by Li et al 2006!


Source: Li, N., Li, T., & Venkatasubramanian, S. (2006, April). t-closeness: Privacy beyond k-anonymity and l-diversity. In *2007 IEEE 23rd international conference on data engineering* (pp. 106-115). IEEE.


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But there remains many things that are vague:


\- After calculating the t-closeness score (salary), the authors introduced Table 5 which was reordered for some reason, with no explanation on why it was! Was it to …

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