%0 Journal Article %T An Improved Bound for Security in an Identity Disclosure Problem | Ghatak | International Journal of Statistics and Probability | CCSE %J International Journal of Statistics and Probability %D 2019 %I %R 10.5539/ijsp.v8n3p24 %X Identity disclosure of an individual from a released data is a matter of concern especially if it belongs to a category with low frequency in the data-set. Nayak et al. (2016) discussed this problem vividly in a census report and suggested a method of obfuscation, which would ensure that the probability of correctly identifying a unit from released data, would not exceed ¦Î for some1 3< ¦Î < 1. However, we observe that for the above method the level of security could be extended under certain conditions. In this paper, we discuss some conditions under which one can achieve a security for any 0 < ¦Î < 1 %U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijsp/article/view/0/39033