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Several anonymization techniques, such as generalization and bucketization, have been designed for privacy preserving microdata publishing. Recent work has shown that generalization loses considerable amount of information, especially for…

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Smart cities, which can monitor the real world and provide smart services in a variety of fields, have improved people's living standards as urbanization has accelerated. However, there are security and privacy concerns because smart city…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jing Jia , Kenta Saito , Hiroaki Nishi

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot support users to precisely balance privacy protection and output performance during individual consultations. We introduce Adanonymizer, an anonymization plug-in that allows users to control this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shuning Zhang , Xin Yi , Haobin Xing , Lyumanshan Ye , Yongquan Hu , Hewu Li

We consider a user releasing her data containing some personal information in return of a service. We model user's personal information as two correlated random variables, one of them, called the secret variable, is to be kept private,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

De Montjoye et al. claimed that most individuals can be reidentified from a deidentified transaction database and that anonymization mechanisms are not effective against reidentification. We demonstrate that anonymization can be performed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-06 David Sánchez , Sergio Martínez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

Many outdoor autonomous mobile platforms require more human identity anonymized data to power their data-driven algorithms. The human identity anonymization should be robust so that less manual intervention is needed, which remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Hengyuan Zhang , Jing-Yan Liao , David Paz , Henrik I. Christensen

Strategic information is valuable either by remaining private (for instance if it is sensitive) or, on the other hand, by being used publicly to increase some utility. These two objectives are antagonistic and leaking this information might…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-03 Etienne Boursier , Vianney Perchet

Differential private (DP) query and response mechanisms have been widely adopted in various applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) to leverage variety of benefits through data analysis. The protection of sensitive information is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Muhammad Islam , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen

We introduce a new privacy model relying on bistochastic matrices, that is, matrices whose components are nonnegative and sum to 1 both row-wise and column-wise. This class of matrices is used to both define privacy guarantees and a tool to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Nicolas Ruiz , Josep Domingo-Ferrer

We present a technique to perform dimensionality reduction on data that is subject to uncertainty. Our method is a generalization of traditional principal component analysis (PCA) to multivariate probability distributions. In comparison to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Jochen Görtler , Thilo Spinner , Dirk Streeb , Daniel Weiskopf , Oliver Deussen

Sequential querying of differentially private mechanisms degrades the overall privacy level. In this paper, we answer the fundamental question of characterizing the level of overall privacy degradation as a function of the number of queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

We introduce the novel problem of benchmarking fraud detectors on private graph-structured data. Currently, many types of fraud are managed in part by automated detection algorithms that operate over graphs. We consider the scenario where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti , Nihar Shah , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Statistical methods protecting sensitive information or the identity of the data owner have become critical to ensure privacy of individuals as well as of organizations. This paper investigates anonymization methods based on representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Clément Feutry , Pablo Piantanida , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre Duhamel

Case-based explanations are an intuitive method to gain insight into the decision-making process of deep learning models in clinical contexts. However, medical images cannot be shared as explanations due to privacy concerns. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Helena Montenegro , Jaime S. Cardoso

Smart-meters are a key component of energy transition. The large amount of data collected in near real-time allows grid operators to observe and simulate network states. However, privacy-preserving rules forbid the use of such data for any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jordan Holweger , Lionel Bloch , Christophe Ballif , Nicolas Wyrsch

A scheme that publishes aggregate information about sensitive data must resolve the trade-off between utility to information consumers and privacy of the database participants. Differential privacy is a well-established definition of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Mangesh Gupte , Mukund Sundararajan

In this document, we present a state of the art of anonymization techniques for classical tabular datasets. This article is geared towards a general public having some knowledge of mathematics and computer science, but with no need for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Benjamin Nguyen , Claude Castelluccia

With large volumes of detailed health care data being collected, there is a high demand for the release of this data for research purposes. Hospitals and organizations are faced with conflicting interests of releasing this data and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-27 William Lee Croft , Wei Shi , Jorg-Rudiger Sack , Jean-Pierre Corriveau

Different techniques, used to optimise on-line principal component analysis, are investigated by methods of statistical mechanics. These include local and global optimisation of node-dependent learning-rates which are shown to be very…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 E Schloesser , D Saad , M Biehl

In Privacy Preserving Data Publishing, various privacy models have been developed for employing anonymization operations on sensitive individual level datasets, in order to publish the data for public access while preserving the privacy of…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Marmar Orooji , Gerald M. Knapp