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Group-Level Frameworks For Data Ethics, Privacy, Safety And Security In Digital Environments, Juniper Lovato

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

In today's digital age, the widespread collection, utilization, and sharing of personal data are challenging our conventional beliefs about privacy and information security. This thesis will explore the boundaries of conventional privacy and security frameworks and investigate new methods to handle online privacy by integrating groups. Additionally, we will examine approaches to monitoring the types of information gathered on individuals to tackle transparency concerns in the data broker and data processor sector. We aim to challenge traditional notions of privacy and security to encourage innovative strategies for safeguarding them in our interconnected, dispersed digital environment.

This thesis uses a multi-disciplinary …

Language-Based Analysis Of Differential Privacy, Chukwunweike Abuah

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

Differential privacy (Dwork, 2006; Dwork et al., 2006a) has achieved prominence over the past decade as a rigorous formal foundation upon which diverse tools and mechanisms for performing private data analysis can be built. The guarantee of differential privacy is that it protects privacy at the individual level: if the result of a differentially private query or operation on a dataset is publicly released, any individual present in that dataset can claim plausible deniability. This means that any participating individual can deny the presence of their information in the dataset based on the query result, because differentially private queries introduce …