
Security and Privacy in Big Data Sharing: State-of-the-Art
and Research Directions
HOUDA FERRADI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
JIANNONG CAO, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
SHAN JIANG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
YINFENG CAO, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
DIVYA SAXENA, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Big Data Sharing (BDS) refers to the act of the data owners to share data so that users can nd, access and use
data according to the agreement. In recent years, BDS has been an emerging topic due to its wide applications,
such as big data trading and cross-domain data analytics. However, as the multiple parties are involved in
a BDS platform, the issue of security and privacy violation arises. There have been a number of solutions
for enhancing security and preserving privacy at dierent big data operations (e.g., data operation, data
searching, data sharing and data outsourcing). To the best of our knowledge, there is no existing survey that
has particularly focused on the broad and systematic developments of these security and privacy solutions. In
this study, we conduct a comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art solutions introduced to tackle security
and privacy issues in BDS. For a better understanding, we rst introduce a general model for BDS and identify
the security and privacy requirements. We discuss and classify the state-of-the-art security and privacy
solutions for BDS according to the identied requirements. Finally, based on the insights gained, we present
and discuss new promising research directions.
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Houda Ferradi, Jiannong Cao, Shan Jiang, Yinfeng Cao, and Divya Saxena. 2022. Security and Privacy in Big
Data Sharing: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions. 1, 1 (October 2022), 33 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
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1 INTRODUCTION
The term big data as the name suggest refers to information assets characterized by high volume,
fast access speed, and a large ontological variety. Dealing with big data requires specic technologies
and analytical methods for its transformation into value. The term big data sharing (BDS) refers
to the act of the data sharer to share big data so that the data sharee can nd, access, and use
in the agreed ways. BDS not only improves the speed of getting data insights, but can also help
strengthen cross-domain data analytics and big data trading. Over the last few years, there is a
huge demand for big data sharing in various industries, which has led to an explosive growth of
information. Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single day, and the amount of
data is only going to grow from there. By 2020, it is estimated that 1.7MB of data will be created
every second for every person on earth. Due to constraints related to the limitations of data storage
Authors’ addresses: Houda Ferradi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Jiannong
Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Shan Jiang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Yinfeng Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong
Kong, Hong Kong; Divya Saxena, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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