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Optimal Distribution of Privacy Budget in Differential Privacy

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Privacy budget management plays an important role when applying differential privacy, as it sets an upper limit in the ability to utilise the private database. In this paper, we explore the possibility of extending the total allocated privacy budget, taking into consideration the data consumer characteristics and the data utilisation context. To this end, we first study the problem of privacy budget distribution in adaptive multi-data consumer differential privacy use cases. Then, we present an extension of the classic differential privacy formal model that allows taking into consideration data consumers’ information disclosure risk when distributing the privacy budget among them. Finally, we define a method that allows to optimally distribute a given privacy budget among a private database’s data consumers.

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    The rationale behind that is that the anonymization would be less relevant when the dataset does not contain personal data.

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Bkakria, A., Tasidou, A., Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Cuppens, F., Bouattour, F., Ben Fredj, F. (2019). Optimal Distribution of Privacy Budget in Differential Privacy. In: Zemmari, A., Mosbah, M., Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Cuppens, F. (eds) Risks and Security of Internet and Systems. CRiSIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11391. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12143-3_18

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