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Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement $\epsilon$ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is…

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In this work, we aim to clarify and reconcile metrics for evaluating privacy protection in text through a systematic survey. Although text anonymization is essential for enabling NLP research and model development in domains with sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yaxuan Ren , Krithika Ramesh , Yaxing Yao , Anjalie Field

Many proximity-based mobile social networks are developed to facilitate connections between any two people, or to help a user to find people with matched profile within a certain distance. A challenging task in these applications is to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Lan Zhang , Xiang-Yang Li

The increasingly rapid use of mobile devices for data transaction around the world has consequently led to a new problem, and that is, how to engage in mobile data transactions while maintaining an acceptable level of data privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Kato Mivule , Claude Turner

Recent literature has seen a considerable uptick in $\textit{Differentially Private Natural Language Processing}$ (DP NLP). This includes DP text privatization, where potentially sensitive input texts are transformed under DP to achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Stephen Meisenbacher , Alexandra Klymenko , Alexander Karpp , Florian Matthes

Private data generated by edge devices -- from smart phones to automotive electronics -- are highly informative when aggregated but can be damaging when mishandled. A variety of solutions are being explored but have not yet won the public's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Graham Cormode , Igor L. Markov

The field of privacy-preserving Natural Language Processing has risen in popularity, particularly at a time when concerns about privacy grow with the proliferation of Large Language Models. One solution consistently appearing in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Stephen Meisenbacher , Florian Matthes

Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining increasing attention due to their exceptional performance across numerous tasks. As a result, the general public utilize them as an influential tool for boosting their productivity while natural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhigang Kan , Linbo Qiao , Hao Yu , Liwen Peng , Yifu Gao , Dongsheng Li

The problem of obfuscating the authorship of a text document has received little attention in the literature to date. Current approaches are ad-hoc and rely on assumptions about an adversary's auxiliary knowledge which makes it difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Natasha Fernandes , Mark Dras , Annabelle McIver

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in creating images highly aligned with user prompts, yet their proclivity for memorizing training set images has sparked concerns about the originality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Chen Chen , Daochang Liu , Mubarak Shah , Chang Xu

Differential Privacy (DP) for text matured from disjointed word-level substitutions to contiguous sentence-level rewriting by leveraging the generative capacity of language models. While this form of text privatization is best suited for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Stefan Arnold

As privacy issues are receiving increasing attention within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, numerous methods have been proposed to sanitize texts subject to differential privacy. However, the state-of-the-art text…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Huimin Chen , Fengran Mo , Yanhao Wang , Cen Chen , Jian-Yun Nie , Chengyu Wang , Jamie Cui

Mobile devices have become an indispensable component of modern life. Their high storage capacity gives these devices the capability to store vast amounts of sensitive personal data, which makes them a high-value target: these devices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Maximilian Zinkus , Tushar M. Jois , Matthew Green

The deployment of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) detection systems necessitates processing sensitive user data, creating a fundamental conflict between authorship verification and privacy preservation. Standard anonymization techniques often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Lionel Z. Wang , Yusheng Zhao , Jiabin Luo , Xinfeng Li , Lixu Wang , Yinan Peng , Haoyang Li , XiaoFeng Wang , Wei Dong

Protecting personal information privacy has become a controversial issue among online social network providers and users. Most social network providers have developed several techniques to decrease threats and risks to the users privacy.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Nahier Aldhafferi , Charles Watson , A. S. M Sajeev

Classification of personal text messages has many useful applications in surveillance, e-commerce, and mental health care, to name a few. Giving applications access to personal texts can easily lead to (un)intentional privacy violations. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Devin Reich , Ariel Todoki , Rafael Dowsley , Martine De Cock , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

Balancing the privacy-utility tradeoff is a crucial requirement of many practical machine learning systems that deal with sensitive customer data. A popular approach for privacy-preserving text analysis is noise injection, in which text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Zekun Xu , Abhinav Aggarwal , Oluwaseyi Feyisetan , Nathanael Teissier

Language models are widely deployed to provide automatic text completion services in user products. However, recent research has revealed that language models (especially large ones) bear considerable risk of memorizing private training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 C. M. Downey , Wei Dai , Huseyin A. Inan , Kim Laine , Saurabh Naik , Tomasz Religa

Sensors embedded in mobile smart devices can monitor users' activity with high accuracy to provide a variety of services to end-users ranging from precise geolocation, health monitoring, and handwritten word recognition. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Rahat Masood , Wing Yan Cheng , Dinusha Vatsalan , Deepak Mishra , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

In recent years, machine learning - particularly deep learning - has significantly impacted the field of information management. While several strategies have been proposed to restrict models from learning and memorizing sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jiajia Li , Lu Yang , Letian Peng , Shitou Zhang , Ping Wang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao