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Preserving differential privacy under finite-precision semantics

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The approximation introduced by finite-precision representation of continuous data can induce ar- bitrarily large information leaks even when the computation using exact semantics is secure. Such leakage can thus undermine design efforts aimed at protecting sensitive information. We focus here on differential privacy, an approach to privacy that emerged from the area of statistical databases and is now widely applied also in other domains. In this approach, privacy is protected by the addition of noise to a true (private) value. To date, this approach to privacy has been proved correct only in the ideal case in which computations are made using an idealized, infinite-precision semantics. In this paper, we analyze the situation at the implementation level, where the semantics is necessarily finite- precision, i.e. the representation of real numbers and the operations on them, are rounded according to some level of precision. We show that in general there are violations of the differential privacy property, and we study the conditions under which we can still guarantee a limited (but, arguably, totally acceptable) variant of the property, under only a minor degradation of the privacy level. Fi- nally, we illustrate our results on two cases of noise-generating distributions: the standard Laplacian mechanism commonly used in differential privacy, and a bivariate version of the Laplacian recently introduced in the setting of privacy-aware geolocation.
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hal-00780774 , version 1 (25-01-2013)
hal-00780774 , version 2 (16-06-2014)

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Ivan Gazeau, Dale Miller, Catuscia Palamidessi. Preserving differential privacy under finite-precision semantics. QAPL - 11th International Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems, Mar 2013, Rome, Italy. pp.1-18, ⟨10.4204/EPTCS.117.1⟩. ⟨hal-00780774v1⟩
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