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No-Go Theorems for Data Privacy

Logic in Computer Science 2020-05-29 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

Controlled query evaluation (CQE) is an approach to guarantee data privacy for database and knowledge base systems. CQE-systems feature a censor function that may distort the answer to a query in order to hide sensitive information. We introduce a high-level formalization of controlled query evaluation and define several desirable properties of CQE-systems. Finally we establish two no-go theorems, which show that certain combinations of these properties cannot be obtained.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.13811,
  title  = {No-Go Theorems for Data Privacy},
  author = {Thomas Studer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.13811},
  year   = {2020}
}
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