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The problem of publishing personal data without giving up privacy is becoming increasingly important. An interesting formalization recently proposed is the k-anonymity. This approach requires that the rows in a table are clustered in sets…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-06-02 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Riccardo Dondi

Despite longstanding criticism from the privacy community, k-anonymity remains a widely used standard for data anonymization, mainly due to its simplicity, regulatory alignment, and preservation of data utility. However, non-experts often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Somiya Chhillar , Mary K. Righi , Rebecca E. Sutter , Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

This work considers computationally efficient privacy-preserving data release. We study the task of analyzing a database containing sensitive information about individual participants. Given a set of statistical queries on the data, we want…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-07-14 Moritz Hardt , Guy N. Rothblum , Rocco A. Servedio

Being able to release and exploit open data gathered in information systems is crucial for researchers, enterprises and the overall society. Yet, these data must be anonymized before release to protect the privacy of the subjects to whom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-17 David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , Jordi Soria-Comas

Bounding privacy leakage over compositions, i.e., privacy accounting, is a key challenge in differential privacy (DP). The privacy parameter ($\eps$ or $\delta$) is often easy to estimate but hard to bound. In this paper, we propose a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Jiachen T. Wang , Saeed Mahloujifar , Tong Wu , Ruoxi Jia , Prateek Mittal

Sharing or publishing social network data while accounting for privacy of individuals is a difficult task due to the interconnectedness of nodes in networks. A key question in k-anonymity, a widely studied notion of privacy, is how to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

k-Anonymity by microaggregation is one of the most commonly used anonymization techniques. This success is owe to the achievement of a worth of interest tradeoff between information loss and identity disclosure risk. However, this method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Balkis Abidi , Sadok Ben Yahia , Charith Perera

The paper redefines econometric identification under formal privacy constraints, particularly differential privacy (DP). Traditionally, econometrics focuses on point or partial identification, aiming to recover parameters precisely or…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-11-06 Tatiana Komarova , Denis Nekipelov

With the advent of big data and the birth of the data markets that sell personal information, individuals' privacy is of utmost importance. The classical response is anonymization, i.e., sanitizing the information that can directly or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Nikhil Jha , Thomas Favale , Luca Vassio , Martino Trevisan , Marco Mellia

In a wide spectrum of real-world applications, it is very important to analyze and mine graph data such as social networks, communication networks, citation networks, and so on. However, the release of such graph data often raises privacy…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Weilong Ren , Kambiz Ghazinour , Xiang Lian

To date publish of a giant social network jointly from different parties is an easier collaborative approach. Agencies and researchers who collect such social network data often have a compelling interest in allowing others to analyze the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Ajay Prasad , G. K. Panda , A. Mitra , Arjun Singh , Deepak Gour

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

In recent years, the growth of data across various sectors, including healthcare, security, finance, and education, has created significant opportunities for analysis and informed decision-making. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Utsab Saha , Tanvir Muntakim Tonoy , Hafiz Imtiaz

We consider the privacy problem in data publishing: given a relation I containing sensitive information 'anonymize' it to obtain a view V such that, on one hand attackers cannot learn any sensitive information from V, and on the other hand…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vibhor Rastogi , Dan Suciu , Sungho Hong

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi

In this paper, we cast the classic problem of achieving k-anonymity for a given database as a problem in algebraic topology. Using techniques from this field of mathematics, we propose a framework for k-anonymity that brings new insights…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Alberto Speranzon , Shaunak D. Bopardikar

A face image not only provides details about the identity of a subject but also reveals several attributes such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and age. Advancements in machine learning algorithms and popularity of sharing images on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Saheb Chhabra , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Gaurav Gupta

An algorithm is developed to gradually relax the Differential Privacy (DP) guarantee of a randomized response. The output from each relaxation maintains the same probability distribution as a standard randomized response with the equivalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Mingen Pan

In this paper, we consider the $k$-approximate pattern matching problem under differential privacy, where the goal is to report or count all substrings of a given string $S$ which have a Hamming distance at most $k$ to a pattern $P$, or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Teresa Anna Steiner