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Retargeting ads are increasingly prevalent on the Internet as their effectiveness has been shown to outperform conventional targeted ads. Retargeting ads are not only based on users' interests, but also on their intents, i.e. commercial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Minh-Dung Tran , Gergely Acs , Claude Castelluccia

As the use of differential privacy (DP) becomes widespread, the development of effective tools for reasoning about the privacy guarantee becomes increasingly critical. In pursuit of this goal, we demonstrate novel relationships between DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zeki Kazan , Sagar Sharma , Wanrong Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qiang Yan

Users are often overwhelmed by privacy decisions to manage their personal data, which can happen on the web, in mobile, and in IoT environments. These decisions can take various forms -- such as decisions for setting privacy permissions or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Victor Morel , Simone Fischer-Hübner

We study the ON-OFF privacy problem. At each time, the user is interested in the latest message of one of $N$ sources. Moreover, the user is assumed to be incentivized to turn privacy ON or OFF whether he/she needs it or not. When privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Fangwei Ye , Carolina Naim , Salim El Rouayheb

The metaverse promises a host of bright opportunities for business, economics, and society. Though, a number of critical aspects are still to be considered and the analysis of their impact is almost non-existent. In this paper, we provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Roberto Di Pietro , Stefano Cresci

The virtual dimension called `Cyberspace' built on internet technologies has served people's daily lives for decades. Now it offers advanced services and connected experiences with the developing pervasive computing technologies that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yinhao Jiang , Ba Dung Le , Tanveer Zia , Praveen Gauravaram

We investigate the tradeoff between privacy and utility in a situation where both privacy and utility are measured in terms of mutual information. For the binary case, we fully characterize this tradeoff in case of perfect privacy and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Shahab Asoodeh , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

Transparency and explainability are two important aspects to be considered when employing black-box machine learning models in high-stake applications. Providing counterfactual explanations is one way of catering this requirement. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shreya Meel , Mohamed Nomeir , Pasan Dissanayake , Sanghamitra Dutta , Sennur Ulukus

Data mining information about people is becoming increasingly important in the data-driven society of the 21st century. Unfortunately, sometimes there are real-world considerations that conflict with the goals of data mining; sometimes the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sam Fletcher , Md Zahidul Islam

Online social networks are becoming a major growth point of the internet, as individuals, companies and governments constantly desire to interact with one another, the ability of the internet to deliver this networking capabilities grows…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Shafii M. Abdulhamid , Sulaiman Ahmad , Victor O. Waziri , Fatima N. Jibril

A typical setup in many machine learning scenarios involves a server that holds a model and a user that possesses data, and the challenge is to perform inference while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. Private Inference has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Netanel Raviv

Data privacy is an increasingly important aspect of many real-world Data sources that contain sensitive information may have immense potential which could be unlocked using the right privacy enhancing transformations, but current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 John Martinsson , Edvin Listo Zec , Daniel Gillblad , Olof Mogren

Ensuring privacy during inference stage is crucial to prevent malicious third parties from reconstructing users' private inputs from outputs of public models. Despite a large body of literature on privacy preserving learning (which ensures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Fengwei Tian , Ravi Tandon

The Internet of Things (IoT) is intended for ubiquitous connectivity among different entities or "things". While its purpose is to provide effective and efficient solutions, security of the devices and network is a challenging issue. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Diego M. Mendez , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Baijian Yang

A user generates n independent and identically distributed data random variables with a probability mass function that must be guarded from a querier. The querier must recover, with a prescribed accuracy, a given function of the data from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Ajaykrishnan Nageswaran , Prakash Narayan

This paper surveys recent work in the intersection of differential privacy (DP) and fairness. It reviews the conditions under which privacy and fairness may have aligned or contrasting goals, analyzes how and why DP may exacerbate bias and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Ferdinando Fioretto , Cuong Tran , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Keyu Zhu

Theoretical and applied research into privacy encompasses an incredibly broad swathe of differing approaches, emphasis and aims. This work introduces a new quantitative notion of privacy that is both contextual and specific. We argue that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Cameron Bell , Timothy Johnston , Antoine Luciano , Christian P Robert

Privacy preservation is a fundamental requirement in many high-stakes domains such as medicine and finance, where sensitive personal data must be analyzed without compromising individual confidentiality. At the same time, these applications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Simon Roburin , Rafaël Pinot , Erwan Scornet

Players (people, firms, states, etc.) have privacy concerns that may affect their choice of actions in strategic settings. We use a variant of signaling games to model this effect and study its relation to pooling behavior,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Ronen Gradwohl , Rann Smorodinsky

Cloud computing is providing a low cost on demand services to the users, omnipresent network,large storage capacity due to these features of cloud computing web applications are moving towards the cloud and due to this migration of the web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Smita Saini , Deep Mann