Rasmus Rønneberg will give a talk about his work on Exact and Efficient Bayesian Inference for Privacy Risk Quantification. Details below.
SPEAKER
Rasmus C. Rønneberg, PhD fellow, KIT.
TITLE
Exact and Efficient Bayesian Inference for Privacy Risk Quantification
ABSTRACT
Data analysis has high value both for commercial and research purposes. However, disclosing analysis results may pose severe privacy risk to individuals. Privug is a method to quantify privacy risks of data analytics programs by analyzing their source code. The method uses probability distributions to model attacker knowledge and Bayesian inference to update said knowledge based on observable outputs. Currently, Privug uses Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to perform inference, which is a flexible but approximate solution. In this talk, I will present an exact Bayesian inference engine based on multivariate Gaussian distributions to accurately and efficiently quantify privacy risks. The inference engine is implemented for a subset of Python programs that can be modeled as multivariate Gaussian models. We evaluate the method by analyzing privacy risks in programs to release public statistics. The evaluation shows that our method accurately and efficiently analyzes privacy risks, and outperforms existing methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate the use of our engine to analyze the effect of differential privacy in public statistics.
This work has been accepted for publication at SEFM’23. Pre-print available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16700