Title
PrivSet: Set-Valued Data Analyses with Locale Differential Privacy.
Abstract
Set-valued data is useful for representing a rich family of information in numerous areas, such as market basket data of online shopping, apps on mobile phones and web browsing history. By analyzing set-valued data that are collected from users, service providers could learn the demographics of the users, the patterns of their usages, and finally, improve the quality of services for them. However, privacy has been an increasing concern in collecting and analyzing users' set-valued data, since these data may reveal sensitive information (e.g., identities, preferences and diseases) about individuals. In this work, we propose a privacy preserving aggregation mechanism for set-valued data: PrivSet. It provides rigorous data privacy protection locally (e.g., on mobile phones or wearable devices) and efficiently (its computational overhead is linear to the item domain size) for each user, and meanwhile allowing effective statistical analyses (e.g., distribution estimation of items, distribution estimation of set cardinality) on set-valued data for service providers. More specifically, in PrivSet, within the constraints of local E-differential privacy, each user independently responses with a subset of the set-valued data domain with calibrated probabilities, hence the true positive/false positive rate of each item is balanced and the performance of distribution estimation is optimized. Besides presenting theoretical error bounds of PrivSet and proving its optimality over existing approaches, we experimentally validate the mechanism, the experimental results illustrate that the estimation error in PrivSet has been reduced by half when compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
IEEE INFOCOM
Overhead (computing),Data modeling,Data domain,Differential privacy,Information retrieval,Computer science,Service provider,Information sensitivity,Information privacy,Data aggregator,Distributed computing
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-166X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaowei Wang1111985.65
Liusheng Huang247364.55
yiwen nie3122.93
Pengzhan Wang4285.53
Hongli Xu550285.92
Wei Yang628654.48