Research on differential privacy protection method based on user tendency

PLoS One. 2023 Oct 26;18(10):e0288823. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288823. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

It is a new attack model to mine user's activity rule from user's massive data. In order to solve the privacy leakage problem caused by user tendency in current privacy preserving methods, an extended differential privacy preserving method based on user's tendency is proposed in the paper. By constructing a Markov chain, and using the Markov decision process, it equivalently expresses user's tendency as measurable state transition probability, which can transform qualitative descriptions of user's tendency into a quantitative representation to achieve an accurate measurement of the user tendency. An extended (P,ε)-differential privacy protection method is proposed in the work, by introducing a privacy model parameter R, it combines the quantified user's propensity probability with a differential privacy budget parameter, and it can dynamically add different noise amounts according to the user's tendency, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting the user's propensity privacy information and improve data availability. Finally, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method was verified by experiments.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Privacy*
  • Probability

Grants and funding

This work was partially supported by the grants from the Changzhou University Doctoral Research Funding Project (ZMF23020074), Jilin Province Science and Technology Research Planning Project (JJKH20210455KJ). There is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this paper, and do not lead to any conflict of interests regarding the publication of this manuscript.