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Main Authors: Nicewarner, Tyler, Jiang, Wei, Gokhale, Aniruddha, Lin, Dan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12341
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author Nicewarner, Tyler
Jiang, Wei
Gokhale, Aniruddha
Lin, Dan
author_facet Nicewarner, Tyler
Jiang, Wei
Gokhale, Aniruddha
Lin, Dan
contents The task of infectious disease contact tracing is crucial yet challenging, especially when meeting strict privacy requirements. Previous attempts in this area have had limitations in terms of applicable scenarios and efficiency. Our paper proposes a highly scalable, practical contact tracing system called PREVENT that can work with a variety of location collection methods to gain a comprehensive overview of a person's trajectory while ensuring the privacy of individuals being tracked, without revealing their plain text locations to any party, including servers. Our system is very efficient and can provide real-time query services for large-scale datasets with millions of locations. This is made possible by a newly designed secret-sharing based architecture that is tightly integrated into unique private space partitioning trees. Notably, our experimental results on both real and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our system introduces negligible performance overhead compared to traditional contact tracing methods. PREVENT could be a game-changer in the fight against infectious diseases and set a new standard for privacy-preserving location tracking.
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spellingShingle Provable Privacy Guarantee for Individual Identities and Locations in Large-Scale Contact Tracing
Nicewarner, Tyler
Jiang, Wei
Gokhale, Aniruddha
Lin, Dan
Cryptography and Security
The task of infectious disease contact tracing is crucial yet challenging, especially when meeting strict privacy requirements. Previous attempts in this area have had limitations in terms of applicable scenarios and efficiency. Our paper proposes a highly scalable, practical contact tracing system called PREVENT that can work with a variety of location collection methods to gain a comprehensive overview of a person's trajectory while ensuring the privacy of individuals being tracked, without revealing their plain text locations to any party, including servers. Our system is very efficient and can provide real-time query services for large-scale datasets with millions of locations. This is made possible by a newly designed secret-sharing based architecture that is tightly integrated into unique private space partitioning trees. Notably, our experimental results on both real and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our system introduces negligible performance overhead compared to traditional contact tracing methods. PREVENT could be a game-changer in the fight against infectious diseases and set a new standard for privacy-preserving location tracking.
title Provable Privacy Guarantee for Individual Identities and Locations in Large-Scale Contact Tracing
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12341