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Data collected nowadays by social-networking applications create fascinating opportunities for building novel services, as well as expanding our understanding about social structures and their dynamics. Unfortunately, publishing…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Paolo Boldi , Francesco Bonchi , Aris Gionis , Tamir Tassa

Preserving privacy of continuous and/or high-dimensional data such as images, videos and audios, can be challenging with syntactic anonymization methods which are designed for discrete attributes. Differential privacy, which provides a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Jihun Hamm

Process mining techniques enable analysts to identify and assess process improvement opportunities based on event logs. A common roadblock to process mining is that event logs may contain private information that cannot be used for analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Gamal Elkoumy , Marlon Dumas

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

Background knowledge is an important factor in privacy preserving data publishing. Distribution-based background knowledge is one of the well studied background knowledge. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Jian Pei , Philip S. Yu

Anonymizing text that contains sensitive information is crucial for a wide range of applications. Existing techniques face the emerging challenges of the re-identification ability of large language models (LLMs), which have shown advanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Tianyu Yang , Xiaodan Zhu , Iryna Gurevych

Differential privacy (DP) allows data analysts to query databases that contain users' sensitive information while providing a quantifiable privacy guarantee to users. Recent interactive DP systems such as APEx provide accuracy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Miti Mazmudar , Thomas Humphries , Jiaxiang Liu , Matthew Rafuse , Xi He

Differential privacy protects an individual's privacy by perturbing data on an aggregated level (DP) or individual level (LDP). We report four online human-subject experiments investigating the effects of using different approaches to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Aiping Xiong , Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

As data-driven technologies advance swiftly, maintaining strong privacy measures becomes progressively difficult. Conventional $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy, while prevalent, exhibits limited adaptability for many applications.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yifeng Liu , Zehua Wang

This paper introduces SynDiffix, a mechanism for generating statistically accurate, anonymous synthetic data for structured data. Recent open source and commercial systems use Generative Adversarial Networks or Transformed Auto Encoders to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Paul Francis , Cristian Berneanu , Edon Gashi

Recent trend towards cloud computing paradigm, smart devices and 4G wireless technologies has enabled seamless data sharing among users. Cloud computing environment is distributed and untrusted, hence data owners have to encrypt their data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Yogachandran Rahulamathavan

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi

Differential privacy is a precise mathematical constraint meant to ensure privacy of individual pieces of information in a database even while queries are being answered about the aggregate. Intuitively, one must come to terms with what…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Paul Cuff , Lanqing Yu

Standard differential privacy imposes uniform privacy constraints across all features, overlooking the inherent distinction between sensitive and insensitive features in practice. In this paper, we introduce a relaxed definition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tianyu Wang , Luhao Zhang , Rachel Cummings

Differential privacy has emerged as the main definition for private data analysis and machine learning. The {\em global} model of differential privacy, which assumes that users trust the data collector, provides strong privacy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Joshua Allen , Bolin Ding , Janardhan Kulkarni , Harsha Nori , Olga Ohrimenko , Sergey Yekhanin

Enormous amounts of data collected from social networks or other online platforms are being published for the sake of statistics, marketing, and research, among other objectives. The consequent privacy and data security concerns have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Ola N. Halawi , Faisal N. Abu-Khzam

Differential privacy is a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for statistical query processing over sensitive data. It works by injecting random noise into each query result, such that it is provably hard for the adversary to infer the…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Ganzhao Yuan , Zhenjie Zhang , Marianne Winslett , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Zhifeng Hao

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

As organizations struggle with processing vast amounts of information, outsourcing sensitive data to third parties becomes a necessity. To protect the data, various cryptographic techniques are used in outsourced database systems to ensure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Dmytro Bogatov , Georgios Kellaris , George Kollios , Kobbi Nissim , Adam O'Neill

Open science is a fundamental pillar to promote scientific progress and collaboration, based on the principles of open data, open source and open access. However, the requirements for publishing and sharing open data are in many cases…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García