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The rapid rise of IoT and Big Data has facilitated copious data driven applications to enhance our quality of life. However, the omnipresent and all-encompassing nature of the data collection can generate privacy concerns. Hence, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Mert Al , Semih Yagli , Sun-Yuan Kung

As privacy issues have gained social salience, entrepreneurs have begun to offer privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) and the U.S. has begun to enact privacy legislation. But "privacy" is an ambiguous notion. In the liberal tradition, it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David J. Phillips

It is well recognised that data mining and statistical analysis pose a serious treat to privacy. This is true for financial, medical, criminal and marketing research. Numerous techniques have been proposed to protect privacy, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Mousa Alfalayleh , Ljiljana Brankovic

The development of artificial intelligence has significantly transformed people's lives. However, it has also posed a significant threat to privacy and security, with numerous instances of personal information being exposed online and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Le Yang , Miao Tian , Duan Xin , Qishuo Cheng , Jiajian Zheng

Recent research in differential privacy demonstrated that (sub)sampling can amplify the level of protection. For example, for $\epsilon$-differential privacy and simple random sampling with sampling rate $r$, the actual privacy guarantee is…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-22 Jingchen Hu , Joerg Drechsler , Hang J. Kim

With vast databases at their disposal, private tech companies can compete with public statistical agencies to provide population statistics. However, private companies face different incentives to provide high-quality statistics and to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2019-06-25 John M. Abowd , Ian M. Schmutte , William Sexton , Lars Vilhuber

While the introduction of differential privacy has been a major breakthrough in the study of privacy preserving data publication, some recent work has pointed out a number of cases where it is not possible to limit inference about…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Jia Wang , Ke Wang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Protecting the privacy of data-sets has become hugely important these days. Many real-life data-sets like income data, medical data need to be secured before making it public. However, security comes at the cost of losing some useful…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-16 Debolina Ghatak , Bimak K Roy

Differential privacy is a recent notion of privacy for statistical databases that provides rigorous, meaningful confidentiality guarantees, even in the presence of an attacker with access to arbitrary side information. We show that for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Adam Smith

Differential privacy is a popular privacy model within the research community because of the strong privacy guarantee it offers, namely that the presence or absence of any individual in a data set does not significantly influence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jordi Soria-Comas , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , David Megías

The increasing prevalence of high-dimensional data across various applications has raised significant privacy concerns in statistical inference. In this paper, we propose a differentially private integrated statistic for testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-04 Shiwei Sang , Yicheng Zeng , Xuehu Zhu , Shurong Zheng

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Mahsa Taziki , Marc Tommasi

Data mining has made broad significant multidisciplinary field used in vast application domains and extracts knowledge by identifying structural relationship among the objects in large data bases. Privacy preserving data mining is a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Pasupuleti Rajesh , Gugulothu Narsimha

Differential privacy has emerged as a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. A popular variant is local differential privacy, where the data holder is the trusted curator. A major barrier, however, towards a wider adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Joseph Geumlek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Motivated by tensions between data privacy for individual citizens, and societal priorities such as counterterrorism and the containment of infectious disease, we introduce a computational model that distinguishes between parties for whom…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

Normalizing flow models have risen as a popular solution to the problem of density estimation, enabling high-quality synthetic data generation as well as exact probability density evaluation. However, in contexts where individuals are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Chris Waites , Rachel Cummings

Differential Privacy has become a widely popular method for data protection in machine learning, especially since it allows formulating strict mathematical privacy guarantees. This survey provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lea Demelius , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Differential privacy is a leading protection setting, focused by design on individual privacy. Many applications, in medical / pharmaceutical domains or social networks, rather posit privacy at a group level, a setting we call integral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-04 Hisham Husain , Zac Cranko , Richard Nock

Consider statistical learning (e.g. discrete distribution estimation) with local $\epsilon$-differential privacy, which preserves each data provider's privacy locally, we aim to optimize statistical data utility under the privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Shaowei Wang , Liusheng Huang , Pengzhan Wang , Yiwen Nie , Hongli Xu , Wei Yang , Xiang-Yang Li , Chunming Qiao