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LLM agents increasingly have access to private user data and act on the user's behalf when interacting with third-party systems. The user defines what may and must not be shared, and the agent must robustly follow that intent even when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Qiaoyuan Zheng , Yiqu Yang , Qi Gao , Imanol Schlag

As large language models (LLMs) become integral to multi-agent systems, new privacy risks emerge that extend beyond memorization, direct inference, or single-turn evaluations. In particular, seemingly innocuous responses, when composed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Vaidehi Patil , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Mohit Bansal

Analyzing privacy threats in software products is an essential part of software development to ensure systems are privacy-respecting; yet it is still a far from trivial activity. While there have been many advancements in the past decade,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Kim Wuyts , Avi Douglen

Anonymization is widely treated as a practical safeguard because re-identifying anonymous records was historically costly, requiring domain expertise, tailored algorithms, and manual corroboration. We study a growing privacy risk that may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Myeongseob Ko , Jihyun Jeong , Sumiran Singh Thakur , Gyuhak Kim , Ruoxi Jia

Mobile Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing diverse fields such as healthcare, finance, and education with their ability to perform advanced natural language processing tasks on-the-go. However, the deployment of these models in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Honghui Xu , Kaiyang Li , Wei Chen , Danyang Zheng , Zhiyuan Li , Zhipeng Cai

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at producing broadly relevant text, but this generality becomes a limitation when user-specific preferences are required, such as recommending restaurants or planning travel. In these scenarios, users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ioannis Tsaknakis , Bingqing Song , Shuyu Gan , Dongyeop Kang , Alfredo Garcia , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Mingyi Hong

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized how information are collected, aggregated, and reasoned. However, this enables a novel and accessible vector of privacy intrusion: the automated and in-depth personal profiling; this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiahao Chen , Qi Zhang , Ruixiao Lin , Chunyi Zhou , Tianyu Du , Qingming Li , Tong Zhang , Junhao Li , Yuwen Pu , Shouling Ji

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

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in personalized tasks involving sensitive, context-dependent information, where privacy violations may arise in agents' action due to the implicitness of contextual privacy.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuhan Cheng , Hancheng Ye , Hai Helen Li , Jingwei Sun , Yiran Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in natural language understanding, reasoning, and autonomous decision-making. However, these advancements have also come with significant privacy concerns. While significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuntao Du , Zitao Li , Ninghui Li , Bolin Ding

Semantic Overlap Summarization (SOS) is a constrained multi-document summarization task, where the constraint is to capture the common/overlapping information between two alternative narratives. In this work, we perform a benchmarking study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 John Salvador , Naman Bansal , Mousumi Akter , Souvika Sarkar , Anupam Das , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker

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

We identify a novel phenomenon in language models: benign fine-tuning of frontier models can lead to privacy collapse. We find that diverse, subtle patterns in training data can degrade contextual privacy, including optimisation for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anmol Goel , Cornelius Emde , Sangdoo Yun , Seong Joon Oh , Martin Gubri

Pseudonymisation provides the means to reduce the privacy impact of monitoring, auditing, intrusion detection, and data collection in general on individual subjects. Its application on data records, especially in an environment with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Ephraim Zimmer , Christian Burkert , Tom Petersen , Hannes Federrath

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse natural language processing tasks, but their tendency to memorize training data poses significant privacy risks, particularly during fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Badrinath Ramakrishnan , Akshaya Balaji

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly integral to diverse applications, their capabilities raise significant privacy concerns. This survey offers a comprehensive overview of privacy risks associated with LLMs and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kang Chen , Xiuze Zhou , Yuanguo Lin , Shibo Feng , Li Shen , Pengcheng Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in healthcare to support clinical decision-making, summarize electronic health records (EHRs), and enhance patient care. However, this integration introduces significant privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mohoshin Ara Tahera , Karamveer Singh Sidhu , Shuvalaxmi Dass , Sajal Saha

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit impressive potential across various tasks but also face significant privacy risks, limiting their practical applications. Current researches on privacy assessment for LVLMs is limited in scope,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jie Zhang , Xiangkui Cao , Zhouyu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

The widespread use of cloud-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has heightened concerns over user privacy, as sensitive information may be inadvertently exposed during interactions with these services. To protect privacy before sending…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shuo Huang , William MacLean , Xiaoxi Kang , Qiongkai Xu , Zhuang Li , Xingliang Yuan , Gholamreza Haffari , Lizhen Qu

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