Profile-based Privacy for Locally Private Computations

Published in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2019

Recommended citation: Geumlek, Joseph, and Kamalika Chaudhuri (2019). "Profile-based privacy for locally private computations." IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09084

We present an alternative privacy framework, focusing on obscuring the identity of specific generating distributions, rather than on specific observed values. This change has benefits and drawbacks, explored by this work. We present some basic mechanisms that can achieve these guarantees while also exploiting the utility gains offered by changing the privacy framework. More complicated mechanisms are left as future work.

This work was performed at the University of California San Diego.

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