arXiv:2606.20546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differential privacy (DP) ensures rigorous individual-level privacy guarantees against even the most knowledgeable attackers, but its worst-case nature can impose a costly privacy-accuracy tradeoff. We introduce privacy via predictability, a fine-grained framework that explicitly incorporates the attacker's core knowledge, a compromised portion of the dataset generated by a stochastic process, and a specified family of queries. Predictability measures privacy leakage as the incremental gain in an attacker's ability to predict sensitive informatio
The increasing deployment of AI systems in sensitive domains necessitates new, more nuanced approaches to privacy preservation that move beyond the limitations of existing frameworks like differential privacy.
This research introduces a fine-grained method for measuring privacy leakage, potentially enabling more accurate and efficient privacy-accuracy tradeoffs in AI systems, which is critical for their societal adoption and regulatory compliance.
The shift from worst-case privacy guarantees (like DP) to a predictability-based framework allows for tailored privacy mechanisms that consider the actual knowledge of an attacker, leading to more practical and less costly privacy solutions.
- · AI developers
- · Organizations handling sensitive data
- · Privacy-preserving AI research
- · Attackers relying on broad data patterns
- · Organizations over-applying differential privacy
AI models can be developed with better privacy guarantees without sacrificing as much accuracy, facilitating their deployment in highly regulated sectors.
New privacy-enhancing technologies emerge that are specifically designed around 'predictability' metrics, rather than just 'obfuscation' metrics.
Regulatory bodies adopt predictability as a standard for assessing privacy leakage in AI systems, leading to a new generation of compliance frameworks.
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