This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a method called scaling based transformation (SBT) for privacy-preserving clustering of centralized numeric data. SBT works by applying an irreversible scaling transformation to the centralized data matrix. This distorts the raw numeric data values while still maintaining the same cluster distributions. The method is tested on an iris dataset, and k-means clustering produces the same cluster distributions before and after SBT, demonstrating that it can preserve privacy of numeric attributes without distorting data mining results.