AI RESEARCH
The Conundrum of Trustworthy Research on Attacking Personally Identifiable Information Removal Techniques
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.08207v1 Announce Type: new Removing personally identifiable information (PII) from texts is necessary to comply with various data protection regulations and to enable data sharing without compromising privacy. However, recent works show that documents sanitized by PII removal techniques are vulnerable to reconstruction attacks. Yet, we suspect that the reported success of these attacks is largely overestimated.