From 6f44fc348ae75c14f60fda0b0a918424d2c4edcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manos Katsomallos Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 15:27:26 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] privacy: Wording --- text/preliminaries/privacy.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/text/preliminaries/privacy.tex b/text/preliminaries/privacy.tex index e453a4d..362e4ab 100644 --- a/text/preliminaries/privacy.tex +++ b/text/preliminaries/privacy.tex @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ The privacy budget $\varepsilon$ is a positive real number that represents the u As the definition implies, $\mathcal{M}$ achieves stronger privacy protection for lower values of $\varepsilon$ since the probabilities of $D$ and $D'$ being true worlds are similar, but the utility of $\pmb{o}$ is reduced since more randomness is introduced by $\mathcal{M}$. The privacy budget $\varepsilon$ is usually set to $0.01$, $0.1$, or, in some cases, $\ln2$ or $\ln3$~\cite{lee2011much}. -Its local variant~\cite{duchi2013local} is compatible with microdata, where $D$ is composed of a single data item $x$. +Its local variant~\cite{duchi2013local} is compatible with microdata, where $D$ is composed of a single data item and is represented by $x$. We refer the interested reader to~\cite{desfontaines2020sok} for a systematic taxonomy of the different variants and extensions of differential privacy. \begin{definition}