Inferentially-Private Private Information

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, Shuaiqi, Zheng, Shuran, Lin, Zinan, Fanti, Giulia, Wu, Zhiwei Steven
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910743700439040
author Wang, Shuaiqi
Zheng, Shuran
Lin, Zinan
Fanti, Giulia
Wu, Zhiwei Steven
author_facet Wang, Shuaiqi
Zheng, Shuran
Lin, Zinan
Fanti, Giulia
Wu, Zhiwei Steven
contents Information disclosure can compromise privacy when revealed information is correlated with private information. We consider the notion of inferential privacy, which measures privacy leakage by bounding the inferential power a Bayesian adversary can gain by observing a released signal. Our goal is to devise an inferentially-private private information structure that maximizes the informativeness of the released signal, following the Blackwell ordering principle, while adhering to inferential privacy constraints. To achieve this, we devise an efficient release mechanism that achieves the inferentially-private Blackwell optimal private information structure for the setting where the private information is binary. Additionally, we propose a programming approach to compute the optimal structure for general cases given the utility function. The design of our mechanisms builds on our geometric characterization of the Blackwell-optimal disclosure mechanisms under privacy constraints, which may be of independent interest.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2410_17095
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Inferentially-Private Private Information
Wang, Shuaiqi
Zheng, Shuran
Lin, Zinan
Fanti, Giulia
Wu, Zhiwei Steven
Cryptography and Security
Information disclosure can compromise privacy when revealed information is correlated with private information. We consider the notion of inferential privacy, which measures privacy leakage by bounding the inferential power a Bayesian adversary can gain by observing a released signal. Our goal is to devise an inferentially-private private information structure that maximizes the informativeness of the released signal, following the Blackwell ordering principle, while adhering to inferential privacy constraints. To achieve this, we devise an efficient release mechanism that achieves the inferentially-private Blackwell optimal private information structure for the setting where the private information is binary. Additionally, we propose a programming approach to compute the optimal structure for general cases given the utility function. The design of our mechanisms builds on our geometric characterization of the Blackwell-optimal disclosure mechanisms under privacy constraints, which may be of independent interest.
title Inferentially-Private Private Information
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17095