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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

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has been widely adopted to protect user privacy in decentralized data collection. However, recent studies have revealed that LDP protocols are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, where malicious users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Ting-Wei Liao , Chih-Hsun Lin , Yu-Lin Tsai , Takao Murakami , Chia-Mu Yu , Jun Sakuma , Chun-Ying Huang , Hiroaki Kikuchi

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently become a popular privacy-preserving data collection technique protecting users' privacy. The main problem of data stream collection under LDP is the poor utility due to multi-item collection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ying Li , Xiaodong Lee , Botao Peng , Themis Palpanas , Jingan Xue

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has been widely recognized as a powerful tool for providing a strong theoretical guarantee of data privacy to data contributors against an untrusted data collector. Under a typical LDP scheme, each data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ye Zheng , Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Yidan Hu , Rui Zhang , Yanchao Zhang

The emergence and evolution of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) and its various adaptations play a pivotal role in tackling privacy issues related to the vast amounts of data generated by intelligent devices, which are crucial for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Likun Qin , Tianshuo Qiu

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) relieves the concern of privacy leakage from users' perspective, as user's private information is randomized before sent to the aggregator. We study the problem of recovering the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zitao Li , Tianhao Wang , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Boris Skoric , Ninghui Li

Local Differential Privacy protocols are stochastic protocols used in data aggregation when individual users do not trust the data aggregator with their private data. In such protocols there is a fundamental tradeoff between user privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Zitao Li , Boris Škorić , Ninghui Li

Recent studies reveal that local differential privacy (LDP) protocols are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks where an attacker can manipulate the final estimate on the server by leveraging the characteristics of LDP and sending carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaoguang Li , Zitao Li , Ninghui Li , Wenhai Sun

The notion of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enables users to answer sensitive questions while preserving their privacy. The basic LDP frequent oracle protocol enables the aggregator to estimate the frequency of any value. But when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently gained prominence as a powerful paradigm for collecting and analyzing sensitive data from users' devices. However, the inherent perturbation added by LDP protocols reduces the utility of the…

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

While the existing literature on Differential Privacy (DP) auditing predominantly focuses on the centralized model (e.g., in auditing the DP-SGD algorithm), we advocate for extending this approach to audit Local DP (LDP). To achieve this,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs

Trajectory data, which tracks movements through geographic locations, is crucial for improving real-world applications. However, collecting such sensitive data raises considerable privacy concerns. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 I-Jung Hsu , Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Mu Yu , Sy-Yen Kuo , Chun-Ying Huang

Our research delves into the balance between maintaining privacy and preserving statistical accuracy when dealing with multivariate data that is subject to \textit{componentwise local differential privacy} (CLDP). With CLDP, each component…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Chiara Amorino , Arnaud Gloter

Item mining, a fundamental task for collecting statistical data from users, has raised increasing privacy concerns. To address these concerns, local differential privacy (LDP) was proposed as a privacy-preserving technique. Existing LDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yulian Mao , Qingqing Ye , Rong Du , Qi Wang , Kai Huang , Haibo Hu

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) addresses significant privacy concerns in sensitive data collection. In this work, we focus on numerical data collection under LDP, targeting a significant gap in the literature: existing LDP mechanisms are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Incheol Baek , Yon Dohn Chung

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

In modern settings of data analysis, we may be running our algorithms on datasets that are sensitive in nature. However, classical machine learning and statistical algorithms were not designed with these risks in mind, and it has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Huanyu Zhang

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

Density-adaptive domain discretization is essential for high-utility privacy-preserving analytics but remains challenging under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to the privacy-budget costs associated with iterative refinement. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alexey Kroshnin , Alexandra Suvorikova

Collecting and analyzing evolving longitudinal data has become a common practice. One possible approach to protect the users' privacy in this context is to use local differential privacy (LDP) protocols, which ensure the privacy protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Héber H. Arcolezi , Carlos Pinzón , Catuscia Palamidessi , Sébastien Gambs