Title
Probabilistic Prediction of Privacy Risks in User Search Histories
Abstract
This paper proposes a new model of user-centric, global, probabilistic privacy, geared for today's challenges of helping users to manage their privacy-sensitive information across a wide variety of social networks, online communities, QA forums, and search histories. Our approach anticipates an adversary that harnesses global background knowledge and rich statistics in order to make educated guesses, that is, probabilistic inferences at sensitive data. We aim for a tool that simulates such a powerful adversary, predicts privacy risks, and guides the user. In this paper, our framework is specialized for the case of Internet search histories. We present preliminary experiments that demonstrate how estimators of global correlations among sensitive and non-sensitive key-value items can be fed into a probabilistic graphical model in order to compute meaningful measures of privacy risk.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2663715.2669609
PSBD@CIKM
Keywords
Field
DocType
probabilistic privacy,privacy risk prediction,user-centric privacy,privacy,data mining,query logs
Data mining,Social network,Information retrieval,Computer science,Probabilistic logic,Adversary,Graphical model,Privacy software,The Internet,Estimator
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.52
27
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joanna Biega122510.91
Ida Mele260.52
Gerhard Weikum3127102146.01