Tiresias : a peer-to-peer platform for privacy preserving machine learning

Big technology firms have a monopoly over user data. To remediate this, we propose a data science platform which allows users to collect their personal data and offer computations on them in a differentially private manner. This platform provides a mechanism for contributors to offer computations on their data in a privacy-preserving way and for requesters -- i.e. anyone who can benefit from applying machine learning to the users' data -- to request computations on user data they would otherwise not be able to collect. Through carefully designed differential privacy mechanisms, we can create a platform which gives people control over their data and enables new types of applications.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Zhang, Kevin,M. Eng.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kalyan Veeramachaneni.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129840

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/129840