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Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) are an integral part of modern AI that have led to breakthrough performances in complex AI tasks. Major AI companies with expensive infrastructures are able to develop and train these large models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Rouzbeh Behnia , Mohamamdreza Ebrahimi , Jason Pacheco , Balaji Padmanabhan

While web agents gained popularity by automating web interactions, their requirement for interface access introduces significant privacy risks that are understudied, particularly from users' perspective. Through a formative study (N=15), we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shuning Zhang , Yutong Jiang , Rongjun Ma , Yuting Yang , Mingyao Xu , Zhixin Huang , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Conversational agents are increasingly woven into individuals' personal lives, yet users often underestimate the privacy risks associated with them. The moment users share information with these agents-such as large language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ivoline Ngong , Swanand Kadhe , Hao Wang , Keerthiram Murugesan , Justin D. Weisz , Amit Dhurandhar , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

Detecting personally identifiable information (PII) in user queries is critical for ensuring privacy in question-answering systems. Current approaches mainly redact all PII, disregarding the fact that some of them may be contextually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Mariia Ponomarenko , Sepideh Abedini , Masoumeh Shafieinejad , D. B. Emerson , Shubhankar Mohapatra , Xi He

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a model where users send privatized data to an untrusted central server whose goal it to solve some data analysis task. In the non-interactive version of this model the protocol consists of a single round…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yuval Dagan , Vitaly Feldman

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into daily life through conversational interfaces, processing user data via natural language inputs and exhibiting advanced reasoning capabilities, which raises new concerns about…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zhuoyang Li , Yanlai Wu , Yao Li , Xinning Gui , Yuhan Luo

With the increasing use of conversational AI systems, there is growing concern over privacy leaks, especially when users share sensitive personal data in interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs). Conversations shared with these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jayden Serenari , Stephen Lee

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven significant progress in Natural Language Interface to Database (NLIDB). However, the widespread adoption of LLMs has raised critical privacy and security concerns. During…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ruiheng Liu , XiaoBing Chen , Jinyu Zhang , Qiongwen Zhang , Yu Zhang , Bailong Yang

Prominent Large Language Model (LLM) services from providers like OpenAI and Google excel at general tasks but often underperform on domain-specific applications. Current customization services for these LLMs typically require users to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhaomin Wu , Jizhou Guo , Junyi Hou , Bingsheng He , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

The number and dynamic nature of web and mobile applications presents significant challenges for assessing their compliance with data protection laws. In this context, symbolic and statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 David Rodriguez , Ian Yang , Jose M. Del Alamo , Norman Sadeh

State-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed as online services, requiring users to transmit detailed prompts to cloud servers. This raises significant privacy concerns. In response, we introduce ConfusionPrompt, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Peihua Mai , Youjia Yang , Ran Yan , Rui Ye , Yan Pang

The widespread adoption of cloud-based proprietary large language models (LLMs) has introduced significant challenges, including operational dependencies, privacy concerns, and the necessity of continuous internet connectivity. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chansung Park , Juyong Jiang , Fan Wang , Sayak Paul , Jing Tang

With the rise of large language models (LLMs), increasing research has recognized their risk of leaking personally identifiable information (PII) under malicious attacks. Although efforts have been made to protect PII in LLMs, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Martin Kuo , Jingyang Zhang , Jianyi Zhang , Minxue Tang , Louis DiValentin , Aolin Ding , Jingwei Sun , William Chen , Amin Hass , Tianlong Chen , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

This paper proposes a new recommendation system preserving both privacy and utility. It relies on the local differential privacy (LDP) for the browsing user to transmit his noisy preference profile, as perturbed Bloom filters, to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Seryne Rahali , Maryline Laurent , Souha Masmoudi , Charles Roux , Brice Mazeau

While open Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress, they still fall short of matching the performance of their closed, proprietary counterparts, making the latter attractive even for the use on highly private data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Vincent Hanke , Tom Blanchard , Franziska Boenisch , Iyiola Emmanuel Olatunji , Michael Backes , Adam Dziedzic

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated advanced capabilities in both text generation and comprehension, and their application to data archives might facilitate the privatization of sensitive information about the data subjects. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Stefano Cirillo , Domenico Desiato , Giuseppe Polese , Monica Maria Lucia Sebillo , Giandomenico Solimando

In our previous works, we defined Local Information Privacy (LIP) as a context-aware privacy notion and presented the corresponding privacy-preserving mechanism. Then we claim that the mechanism satisfies epsilon-LIP for any epsilon>0 for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Bo Jiang , Ming Li , Ravi Tandon

LLMs driven products were increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, With a natural language based interaction style, people may potentially leak their personal private information. Thus, privacy policy and user agreement played an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Shuning Zhang , Haobin Xing , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

The generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools based on Large Language Models (LLMs) use billions of parameters to extensively analyse large datasets and extract critical private information such as, context, specific details,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Imdad Ullah , Najm Hassan , Sukhpal Singh Gill , Basem Suleiman , Tariq Ahamed Ahanger , Zawar Shah , Junaid Qadir , Salil S. Kanhere