Privacy against a hypothesis testing adversary
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Author(s)
Li, Zuxing
Oechtering, Tobias J
Gunduz, Deniz
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Privacy against an adversary (AD) that tries to detect the underlying privacy-sensitive data distribution is studied. The original data sequence is assumed to come from one of the two known distributions, and the privacy leakage is measured by the probability of error of the binary hypothesis test carried out by the AD. A management unit (MU) is allowed to manipulate the original data sequence in an online fashion, while satisfying an average distortion constraint. The goal of the MU is to maximize the minimal type II probability of error subject to a constraint on the type I probability of error assuming an adversarial Neyman-Pearson test, or to maximize the minimal error probability assuming an adversarial Bayesian test. The asymptotic exponents of the maximum minimal type II probability of error and the maximum minimal error probability are shown to be characterized by a Kullback-Leibler divergence rate and a Chernoff information rate, respectively. Privacy performances of particular management policies, the memoryless hypothesis-aware policy and the hypothesis-unaware policy with memory, are compared. The proposed formulation can also model adversarial example generation with minimal data manipulation to fool classifiers. Lastly, the results are applied to a smart meter privacy problem, where the user’s energy consumption is manipulated by adaptively using a renewable energy source in order to hide user’s activity from the energy provider.
Date Issued
2019-06
Date Acceptance
2018-10-29
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2019, 14 (6), pp.1567-1581
ISSN
1556-6013
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
1567
End Page
1581
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Volume
14
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Grant Number
EP/N021738/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Computer Science
Engineering
Neyman-Pearson test
Bayesian test
information theory
large deviations
privacy-enhancing technology
SMART METER PRIVACY
ENERGY
Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
08 Information and Computing Sciences
09 Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-11-20