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Adding Differential Privacy In An Open Board Discussion Board System, Pragya Rana
Adding Differential Privacy In An Open Board Discussion Board System, Pragya Rana
Master's Projects
This project implements a privacy system for statistics generated by the Yioop search and discussion board system. Statistical data for such a system consists of various counts, sums, and averages that might be displayed for groups, threads, etc. When statistical data is made publicly available, there is no guarantee of preserving the privacy of an individual. Ideally, any data extracted should not reveal any sensitive information about an individual. In order to help achieve this, we implemented a Differential Privacy mechanism for Yioop. Differential privacy preserves privacy up to some controllable parameters of the number of items or individuals being …
Dpweka: Achieving Differential Privacy In Weka, Srinidhi Katla
Dpweka: Achieving Differential Privacy In Weka, Srinidhi Katla
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Organizations belonging to the government, commercial, and non-profit industries collect and store large amounts of sensitive data, which include medical, financial, and personal information. They use data mining methods to formulate business strategies that yield high long-term and short-term financial benefits. While analyzing such data, the private information of the individuals present in the data must be protected for moral and legal reasons. Current practices such as redacting sensitive attributes, releasing only the aggregate values, and query auditing do not provide sufficient protection against an adversary armed with auxiliary information. In the presence of additional background information, the privacy protection …