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Trajectory data collection is a common task with many applications in our daily lives. Analyzing trajectory data enables service providers to enhance their services, which ultimately benefits users. However, directly collecting trajectory…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yuemin Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Rui Chen , Haibo Hu , Qilong Han

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

The advent of numerous indoor location-based services (LBSs) and the widespread use of many types of mobile devices in indoor environments have resulted in generating a massive amount of people's location data. While geo-spatial data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Hojjat Navidan , Vahideh Moghtadaiee , Niki Nazaran , Mina Alishahi

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols allow an aggregator to obtain population statistics about sensitive data of a userbase, while protecting the privacy of the individual users. To understand the tradeoff between aggregator utility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Boris Škorić , Ninghui Li

Protocols satisfying Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enable parties to collect aggregate information about a population while protecting each user's privacy, without relying on a trusted third party. LDP protocols (such as Google's RAPPOR)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Tianhao Wang , Jeremiah Blocki , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) alleviates privacy concerns of users because their private information is randomized before being sent it to the central aggregator. LDP imposes large amount of noise as each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tianhao Wang , Bolin Ding , Min Xu , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Jingren Zhou , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Organizations with a large user base, such as Samsung and Google, can potentially benefit from collecting and mining users' data. However, doing so raises privacy concerns, and risks accidental privacy breaches with serious consequences.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Thông T. Nguyên , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Siu Cheung Hui , Hyejin Shin , Junbum Shin

The distributed nature of local differential privacy (LDP) invites data poisoning attacks and poses unforeseen threats to the underlying LDP-supported applications. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive mitigation framework for popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiaolin Li , Ninghui Li , Boyang Wang , Wenhai Sun

Local differential privacy (LDP) has received much interest recently. In existing protocols with LDP guarantees, a user encodes and perturbs his data locally before sharing it to the aggregator. In common practice, however, users would…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Lin Sun , Xiaojun Ye , Jun Zhao , Chenhui Lu , Mengmeng Yang

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a strong notion of privacy for individual users that often comes at the expense of a significant drop in utility. The classical definition of LDP assumes that all elements in the data domain are equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jayadev Acharya , Keith Bonawitz , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage , Ziteng Sun

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a prominent notion for privacy-preserving data collection. While numerous LDP protocols and post-processing (PP) methods have been developed, selecting an optimal combination under different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Berkay Kemal Balioglu , Alireza Khodaie , Mehmet Emre Gursoy

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables the efficient release of aggregate statistics without having to trust the central server (aggregator), as in the central model of differential privacy, and simultaneously protects a client's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tariq Bontekoe , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Fatih Turkmen

Sensitive statistics are often collected across sets of users, with repeated collection of reports done over time. For example, trends in users' private preferences or software usage may be monitored via such reports. We study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Úlfar Erlingsson , Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Ananth Raghunathan , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enables massive data collection and analysis while protecting end users' privacy against untrusted aggregators. It has been applied to various data types (e.g., categorical, numerical, and graph data) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Xinyu Li , Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Liang Shi , Chia-Mu Yu

There are now several large scale deployments of differential privacy used to collect statistical information about users. However, these deployments periodically recollect the data and recompute the statistics using algorithms designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Matthew Joseph , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman , Bo Waggoner

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has been widely studied to estimate statistics of personal data (e.g., distribution underlying the data) while protecting users' privacy. Although LDP does not require a trusted third party, it regards all…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Takao Murakami , Yusuke Kawamoto

Large-scale data collection, from national censuses to IoT-enabled smart homes, routinely gathers dozens of attributes per individual. These multi-attribute datasets are crucial for analytics but pose significant privacy risks. Local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Ye Zheng , Yidan Hu

Local differential privacy (LDP) is increasingly employed in privacy-preserving machine learning to protect user data before sharing it with an untrusted aggregator. Most LDP methods assume that users possess only a single data record,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Behnoosh Zamanlooy , Mario Diaz , Shahab Asoodeh

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki