Private and continual release of statistics

  • Authors:
  • T.-H. Hubert Chan;Elaine Shi;Dawn Song

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Hong Kong;PARC;UC, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'10 Proceedings of the 37th international colloquium conference on Automata, languages and programming: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We ask the question - how can websites and data aggregators continually release updated statistics, and meanwhile preserve each individual user's privacy? Given a stream of 0's and 1's, we propose a differentially private continual counter that outputs at every time step the approximate number of 1's seen thus far. Our counter construction has error that is only poly-log in the number of time steps. We can extend the basic counter construction to allow websites to continually give top-k and hot items suggestions while preserving users' privacy.