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Privacy is an increasingly important aspect of data publishing. Reasoning about privacy, however, is fraught with pitfalls. One of the most significant is the auxiliary information (also called external knowledge, background knowledge, or…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Adam Smith

Across academia, government, and industry, data stewards are facing increasing pressure to make datasets more openly accessible for researchers while also protecting the privacy of data subjects. Differential privacy (DP) is one promising…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jayshree Sarathy , Sophia Song , Audrey Haque , Tania Schlatter , Salil Vadhan

Most of our lives are conducted in the cyberspace. The human notion of privacy translates into a cyber notion of privacy on many functions that take place in the cyberspace. This article focuses on three such functions: how to privately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Sennur Ulukus , Salman Avestimehr , Michael Gastpar , Syed Jafar , Ravi Tandon , Chao Tian

Consider a data publishing setting for a dataset composed by both private and non-private features. The publisher uses an empirical distribution, estimated from $n$ i.i.d. samples, to design a privacy mechanism which is applied to new fresh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Mario Diaz , Hao Wang , Flavio P. Calmon , Lalitha Sankar

This chapter examines identity theft in the digital age, particularly in the context of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It begins with a discussion of big data and selfhood, the concepts of data selves and data doubles,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Tim Gorichanaz

In this paper, we develop a user-centric privacy framework for quantitatively assessing the exposure of personal information in open settings. Our formalization addresses key-challenges posed by such open settings, such as the unstructured…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Michael Backes , Pascal Berrang , Praveen Manoharan

The objective of machine learning is to extract useful information from data, while privacy is preserved by concealing information. Thus it seems hard to reconcile these competing interests. However, they frequently must be balanced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Zhanglong Ji , Zachary C. Lipton , Charles Elkan

The protection of private information is of vital importance in data-driven research, business, and government. The conflict between privacy and utility has triggered intensive research in the computer science and statistics communities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

While the introduction of differential privacy has been a major breakthrough in the study of privacy preserving data publication, some recent work has pointed out a number of cases where it is not possible to limit inference about…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Jia Wang , Ke Wang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Absolute anonymization, conceived as an irreversible transformation that prevents re-identification and sensitive value disclosure, has proven to be a broken promise. Consequently, modern data protection must shift toward a privacy-utility…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-16 Raphaël de Fondeville

Advancements in information and communication technologies have enhanced our possibilities to communicate worldwide, eliminating borders and making it possible to interact with people coming from other cultures like never happened before.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Andrea Guazzini , Ayça Saraç , Camillo Donati , Annalisa Nardi , Daniele Vilone , Patrizia Meringolo

In the digital age, e-commerce has transformed the way consumers shop, offering convenience and accessibility. Nevertheless, concerns about the privacy and security of personal information shared on these platforms have risen. In this work,…

Privacy is of worldwide concern regarding activities and processes that include sensitive data. For this reason, many countries and territories have been recently approving regulations controlling the extent to which organizations may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Samuel Sousa , Christian Guetl , Roman Kern

In the wake of the on-going digital revolution, we will see a dramatic transformation of our economy and most of our societal institutions. While the benefits of this transformation can be massive, there are also tremendous risks to our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Dirk Helbing

Machine Learning on Big Data gets more and more attention in various fields. Even so privacy-preserving techniques become more important, even necessary due to legal regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jasmin Zalonis , Frederik Armknecht , Björn Grohmann , Manuel Koch

Data security, which is concerned with the prevention of unauthorized access to computers, databases, and websites, helps protect digital privacy and ensure data integrity. It is extremely difficult, however, to make security watertight,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Marten Lohstroh

Genome sequencing technology has advanced at a rapid pace and it is now possible to generate highly-detailed genotypes inexpensively. The collection and analysis of such data has the potential to support various applications, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Muhammad Naveed , Erman Ayday , Ellen W. Clayton , Jacques Fellay , Carl A. Gunter , Jean-Pierre Hubaux , Bradley A. Malin , XiaoFeng Wang

An information theoretic privacy mechanism design problem for two scenarios is studied where the private data is either hidden or observable. In each scenario, privacy leakage constraints are considered using two different measures. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Privacy preservation is a fundamental requirement in many high-stakes domains such as medicine and finance, where sensitive personal data must be analyzed without compromising individual confidentiality. At the same time, these applications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Simon Roburin , Rafaël Pinot , Erwan Scornet

This paper initiates the study of the testable implications of choice data in settings where agents have privacy preferences. We adapt the standard conceptualization of consumer choice theory to a situation where the consumer is aware of,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Rachel Cummings , Federico Echenique , Adam Wierman