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Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

Differential privacy (DP) has become the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, but its applicability can be limited in scenarios involving complex dependencies between sensitive information and datasets. To address this, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Tao Zhang , Bradley A. Malin , Netanel Raviv , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Modern Web APIs allow developers to provide extensively customized experiences for website visitors, but the richness of the device information they provide also make them vulnerable to being abused to construct browser fingerprints,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Enrico Bacis , Igor Bilogrevic , Robert Busa-Fekete , Asanka Herath , Antonio Sartori , Umar Syed

To resolve the acute problem of privacy protection and guarantee that data can be used in the context of threat intelligence, this paper considers the implementation of Differential Privacy (DP) in cybersecurity analytics. DP, which is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brahim Khalil Sedraoui , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Amina Makhlouf , Chaouki Chemam

Recommendation systems form the center piece of a rapidly growing trillion dollar online advertisement industry. Even with numerous optimizations and approximations, collaborative filtering (CF) based approaches require real-time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Theja Tulabandhula , Shailesh Vaya , Aritra Dhar

Differential privacy provides a theoretical framework for processing a dataset about $n$ users, in a way that the output reveals a minimal information about any single user. Such notion of privacy is usually ensured by noise-adding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Armando Angrisani , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

This paper introduces a differentially private (DP) mechanism to protect the information exchanged during the coordination of sequential and interdependent markets. This coordination represents a classic Stackelberg game and relies on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Ferdinando Fioretto , Lesia Mitridati , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Differential privacy has emerged as a promising probabilistic formulation of privacy, generating intense interest within academia and industry. We present a push-button, automated technique for verifying $\varepsilon$-differential privacy…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Aws Albarghouthi , Justin Hsu

Quantum computing has been widely applied in various fields, such as quantum physics simulations, quantum machine learning, and big data analysis. However, in the domains of data-driven paradigm, how to ensure the privacy of the database is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Yuqing Li , Yusheng Zhao , Xinyue Zhang , Hui Zhong , Miao Pan , Chi Zhang

Free content and services on the Web are often supported by ads. However, with the proliferation of intrusive and privacy-invasive ads, a significant proportion of users have started to use ad blockers. As existing ad blockers are radical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Jagdish Prasad Achara , Javier Parra-Arnau , Claude Castelluccia

Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) is a single-parameter family of privacy notions that provides coherent guarantees to avoid the exposure of sensitive individual information. Despite the extra interpretability and tighter bounds under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yi Liu , Ke Sun , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

$\epsilon$-Differential privacy (DP) is a well-known privacy model that offers strong privacy guarantees. However, when applied to data releases, DP significantly deteriorates the analytical utility of the protected outcomes. To keep data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Jordi Soria-Comas , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , Luis Del Vasto-Terrientes

We measure how effective Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are at protecting users from website fingerprinting. Our measurements use both experimental and observational methods. Experimental methods allow control, precision, and use on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Amit Datta , Jianan Lu , Michael Carl Tschantz

We propose a hybrid model of differential privacy that considers a combination of regular and opt-in users who desire the differential privacy guarantees of the local privacy model and the trusted curator model, respectively. We demonstrate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Brendan Avent , Aleksandra Korolova , David Zeber , Torgeir Hovden , Benjamin Livshits

We present a framework to statistically audit the privacy guarantee conferred by a differentially private machine learner in practice. While previous works have taken steps toward evaluating privacy loss through poisoning attacks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fred Lu , Joseph Munoz , Maya Fuchs , Tyler LeBlond , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , Brian Testa

In response to calls for open data and growing privacy threats, organizations are increasingly adopting privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy (DP) that inject statistical noise when generating published datasets. These…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Harold Triedman , Jayshree Sarathy , Priyanka Nanayakkara , Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Sean Kross , Elissa M. Redmiles

Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

Nowadays, crowd sensing becomes increasingly more popular due to the ubiquitous usage of mobile devices. However, the quality of such human-generated sensory data varies significantly among different users. To better utilize sensory data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yaliang Li , Houping Xiao , Zhan Qin , Chenglin Miao , Lu Su , Jing Gao , Kui Ren , Bolin Ding

Estimating causal effects from randomized experiments is only possible if participants are willing to disclose their potentially sensitive responses. Differential privacy, a widely used framework for ensuring an algorithms privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni , Jean Pouget-Abadie

Differential privacy (DP) has become the gold standard for preserving individual privacy in data analysis. However, an implicit yet fundamental assumption underlying these rigorous privacy guarantees is the correct implementation and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haochen Sun , Xi He