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Main Author: Parikh, Krish
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08462
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contents Smart vehicles produce large amounts of data, much of which is sensitive and at risk of privacy breaches. As attackers increasingly exploit anonymised metadata within these datasets to profile drivers, it's important to find solutions that mitigate this information leakage without hindering innovation and ongoing research. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising tool to address these privacy concerns, as it allows for the replication of real-world data relationships while minimising the risk of revealing sensitive information. In this paper, we examine the use of synthetic data to tackle these challenges. We start by proposing a comprehensive taxonomy of 14 in-vehicle sensors, identifying potential attacks and categorising their vulnerability. We then focus on the most vulnerable signals, using the Passive Vehicular Sensor (PVS) dataset to generate synthetic data with a Tabular Variational Autoencoder (TVAE) model, which included over 1 million data points. Finally, we evaluate this against 3 core metrics: fidelity, utility, and privacy. Our results show that we achieved 90.1% statistical similarity and 78% classification accuracy when tested on its original intent while also preventing the profiling of the driver. The code can be found at https://github.com/krish-parikh/Synthetic-Data-Generation
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spellingShingle Driving Privacy Forward: Mitigating Information Leakage within Smart Vehicles through Synthetic Data Generation
Parikh, Krish
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
Smart vehicles produce large amounts of data, much of which is sensitive and at risk of privacy breaches. As attackers increasingly exploit anonymised metadata within these datasets to profile drivers, it's important to find solutions that mitigate this information leakage without hindering innovation and ongoing research. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising tool to address these privacy concerns, as it allows for the replication of real-world data relationships while minimising the risk of revealing sensitive information. In this paper, we examine the use of synthetic data to tackle these challenges. We start by proposing a comprehensive taxonomy of 14 in-vehicle sensors, identifying potential attacks and categorising their vulnerability. We then focus on the most vulnerable signals, using the Passive Vehicular Sensor (PVS) dataset to generate synthetic data with a Tabular Variational Autoencoder (TVAE) model, which included over 1 million data points. Finally, we evaluate this against 3 core metrics: fidelity, utility, and privacy. Our results show that we achieved 90.1% statistical similarity and 78% classification accuracy when tested on its original intent while also preventing the profiling of the driver. The code can be found at https://github.com/krish-parikh/Synthetic-Data-Generation
title Driving Privacy Forward: Mitigating Information Leakage within Smart Vehicles through Synthetic Data Generation
topic Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08462