This paper initiates the study of preserving differential privacy (DP) when the data-set is sparse. We study the problem of constructing efficient sanitizer that preserves DP and guarantees high utility for answering cut-queries on graphs. The main motivation for studying sparse graphs arises from the empirical evidences that social networking sites are sparse graphs. We also motivate and advoc...

De-identified data has the potential to be shared widely to support decision making and research. While significant advances have been made in anonymization of structured data, anonymization of textual information is in it infancy. Document sanitization requires finding and removing personally identifiable information. While current tools are effective at removing specific types of information ...

On-line social networks, such as Facebook, are increasingly utilized by many people. These networks allow users to publish details about themselves and connect to their friends. Some of the information revealed inside these networks is meant to be private. Yet it is possible that corporations could use learning algorithms on released data to predict undisclosed private information. In this pape...

Distributed association rule mining is an integral part of data mining that extracts useful information hidden in distributed data sources. As local frequent itemsets are globalized from data sources, sensitive information about individual data sources needs high protection. Different privacy preserving data mining approaches for distributed environment have been proposed but in the existing ap...

Many machine learning systems rely on data collected in the wild from untrusted sources, exposing the learning algorithms to data poisoning. Attackers can inject malicious data in the training dataset to subvert the learning process, compromising the performance of the algorithm producing errors in a targeted or an indiscriminate way. Label flipping attacks are a special case of data poisoning,...

Distributed association rule mining is an integral part of data mining that extracts useful information hidden in distributed data sources. As local frequent itemsets are globalized from data sources, sensitive information about individual data sources needs high protection. Different privacy preserving data mining approaches for distributed environment have been proposed but in the existing ap...

In recent years, the data mining techniques have met a serious challenge due to the increased concerning and worries of the privacy, that is, protecting the privacy of the critical and sensitive data. Different techniques and algorithms have been already presented for Privacy Preserving data mining, which could be classified in three common approaches: Data modification approach, Data sanitizat...

Security is likely to be a critical factor in the future adoption of provenance technology, because of the risk of inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information. In this survey paper we review the state of the art in secure provenance, considering mechanisms for controlling access, and the extent to which these mechanisms preserve provenance integrity. We examine seven systems or approaches, ...

We introduce a new definition of privacy called crowd-blending privacy that strictly relaxes the notion of differential privacy. Roughly speaking, k-crowd blending private sanitization of a database requires that each individual i in the database “blends” with k other individuals j in the database, in the sense that the output of the sanitizer is “indistinguishable” if i’s data is replaced by j...

Privacy-preserving releasing of complex data (e.g., image, text, audio) represents a long-standing challenge for the data mining research community. Due to rich semantics of the data and lack of a priori knowledge about the analysis task, excessive sanitization is often necessary to ensure privacy, leading to significant loss of the data utility. In this paper, we present dp-GAN, a general priv...