A Universally Applicable Differential Privacy System: Redefining Utility in Database Privacy to Prioritize User Experience

Data privacy is a fundamental ethical goal. We must aim for innovating without exploiting. In order to provide formal privacy guarantees, differential privacy has been the central method of implementing database privacy. However, there are many barriers to widespread adoption. General methods lack accuracy and more innovative methods lack applicability beyond a specific kind of data or query. This project aims to create an effective differentially private system that provides an identical user experience to using raw data and redefines utility in database privacy to focus on the user experience.

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

2022

Author dc:creator

• Xu, Helen J.

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Madden, Samuel
• Cao, Lei

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright MIT

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144558

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/144558