Overview
- This book investigates the privacy-utility trade-off issue by analyzing interactions among multiple stakeholders, which is different from the predominant methodology in current literature
- This book presents a formalized analysis of the privacy preserving strategies. Specifically, game theory and contract theory, which are widely used in the study of economics, are applied in this book to analyze users’ strategies
- The topic of information security and privacy is extremely hot in worldwide
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With the growing popularity of “big data”, the potential value of personal data has attracted more and more attention. Applications built on personal data can create tremendous social and economic benefits. Meanwhile, they bring serious threats to individual privacy. The extensive collection, analysis and transaction of personal data make it difficult for an individual to keep the privacy safe. People now show more concerns about privacy than ever before. How to make a balance between the exploitation of personal information and the protection of individual privacy has become an urgent issue.
In this book, the authors use methodologies from economics, especially game theory, to investigate solutions to the balance issue. They investigate the strategies of stakeholders involved in the use of personal data, and try to find the equilibrium.
The book proposes a user-role based methodology to investigate the privacy issues in data mining, identifying four different types of users, i.e. four user roles, involved in data mining applications. For each user role, the authors discuss its privacy concerns and the strategies that it can adopt to solve the privacy problems.
The book also proposes a simple game model to analyze the interactions among data provider, data collector and data miner. By solving the equilibria of the proposed game, readers can get useful guidance on how to deal with the trade-off between privacy and data utility. Moreover, to elaborate the analysis on data collector’s strategies, the authors propose a contract model and a multi-armed bandit model respectively.
The authors discuss how the owners of data (e.g. an individual or a data miner) deal with the trade-off between privacy and utility in data mining. Specifically, they study users’ strategies in collaborative filtering based recommendation system and distributed classification system. They built game models to formulate the interactions among data owners, and propose learning algorithms to find the equilibria.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Data Privacy Games
Authors: Lei Xu, Chunxiao Jiang, Yi Qian, Yong Ren
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77965-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77964-5Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08586-5Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77965-2Published: 24 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 181
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Information Storage and Retrieval, Management of Computing and Information Systems, e-Commerce/e-business