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While pursuing better utility by discovering knowledge from the data, individual's privacy may be compromised during an analysis. To that end, differential privacy has been widely recognized as the state-of-the-art privacy notion. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Meisam Mohammady

Differential privacy is a popular privacy-enhancing technology that has been deployed both in industry and government agencies. Unfortunately, existing explanations of differential privacy fail to set accurate privacy expectations for data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mary Anne Smart , Priyanka Nanayakkara , Rachel Cummings , Gabriel Kaptchuk , Elissa Redmiles

Differential privacy is becoming one gold standard for protecting the privacy of publicly shared data. It has been widely used in social science, data science, public health, information technology, and the U.S. decennial census.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xuan Bi , Xiaotong Shen

As a mathematically rigorous framework that has amassed a rich theoretical literature, differential privacy is considered by many experts to be the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis. Others argue that while differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rachel Cummings , Jayshree Sarathy

Differential privacy is a mathematical concept that provides an information-theoretic security guarantee. While differential privacy has emerged as a de facto standard for guaranteeing privacy in data sharing, the known mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

This paper aims at answering the following two questions in privacy-preserving data analysis and publishing: What formal privacy guarantee (if any) does $k$-anonymization provide? How to benefit from the adversary's uncertainty about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ninghui Li , Wahbeh Qardaji , Dong Su

Differential privacy is often applied with a privacy parameter that is larger than the theory suggests is ideal; various informal justifications for tolerating large privacy parameters have been proposed. In this work, we consider partial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Thomas Steinke

Differential privacy is an information theoretic constraint on algorithms and code. It provides quantification of privacy leakage and formal privacy guarantees that are currently considered the gold standard in privacy protections. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Daniel Kifer , Solomon Messing , Aaron Roth , Abhradeep Thakurta , Danfeng Zhang

Differential privacy (DP) has achieved remarkable results in the field of privacy-preserving machine learning. However, existing DP frameworks do not satisfy all the conditions for becoming metrics, which prevents them from deriving better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chengyi Yang , Jiayin Qi , Aimin Zhou

Differential privacy is among the most prominent techniques for preserving privacy of sensitive data, oweing to its robust mathematical guarantees and general applicability to a vast array of computations on data, including statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Naoise Holohan , Stefano Braghin

Differential privacy is typically studied in the central model where a trusted "aggregator" holds the sensitive data of all the individuals and is responsible for protecting their privacy. A popular alternative is the local model in which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Thomas Steinke

Differential Privacy (DP) is a probabilistic framework that protects privacy while preserving data utility. To protect the privacy of the individuals in the dataset, DP requires adding a precise amount of noise to a statistic of interest;…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-05 Yu-Wei Chen , Pranav Sanghi , Jordan Awan

Emerging systems such as smart grids or intelligent transportation systems often require end-user applications to continuously send information to external data aggregators performing monitoring or control tasks. This can result in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical definition of privacy that can be widely applied when publishing data. DP has been recognized as a potential means of adhering to various privacy-related legal requirements. However, it can be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Jessica Hullman

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Differential privacy (DP) is a class of mathematical standards for assessing the privacy provided by a data-release mechanism. This work concerns two important flavors of DP that are related yet conceptually distinct: pure…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-22 James Bailie , Ruobin Gong

Differential privacy is known to protect against threats to validity incurred due to adaptive, or exploratory, data analysis -- even when the analyst adversarially searches for a statistical estimate that diverges from the true value of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Elbert Du , Cynthia Dwork

Differential privacy has recently emerged as the de facto standard for private data release. This makes it possible to provide strong theoretical guarantees on the privacy and utility of released data. While it is well-known how to release…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Graham Cormode , Magda Procopiuc , Entong Shen , Divesh Srivastava , Ting Yu

We introduce Concentrated Differential Privacy, a relaxation of Differential Privacy enjoying better accuracy than both pure differential privacy and its popular "(epsilon,delta)" relaxation without compromising on cumulative privacy loss…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Cynthia Dwork , Guy N. Rothblum

We propose a relaxed privacy definition called {\em random differential privacy} (RDP). Differential privacy requires that adding any new observation to a database will have small effect on the output of the data-release procedure. Random…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-12-13 Rob Hall , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman