From 70b30443a9e6b30404e0fe464115c49cd60966dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manos Katsomallos Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 09:28:16 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] statistical: Revision of farokhi2020temporally --- text/related/statistical.tex | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/text/related/statistical.tex b/text/related/statistical.tex index 315fc58..1cb79d0 100644 --- a/text/related/statistical.tex +++ b/text/related/statistical.tex @@ -363,12 +363,12 @@ The combination of the Perturber and the Grouper follows the sequential composit % - - % - differential privacy % - perturbation (Laplace) -\hypertarget{farokhi2020temporally}{Farokhi}~\cite{farokhi2020temporally} proposed a relaxation of the user-level protection of differential privacy based on the discounted utility theory in the economics literature. -More specifically, at each timestamp, the scheme of temporally discounted differential privacy assigns different weights to the privacy budgets that have been invested in previous timestamps. +\hypertarget{farokhi2020temporally}{Farokhi}~\cite{farokhi2020temporally} proposed a relaxation of the user-level protection of differential privacy based on the discounted utility theory in economics. +More specifically, at each timestamp, the scheme of \emph{temporally discounted differential privacy} assigns different weights to the privacy budgets that have been invested in previous timestamps. These weights decrease the further that we observe in the past. The author implements an exponentially and a hyperbolic discounted scheme. In the former, the discount factor, which is positive and less than $1$, and in the latter, the discounting coefficient, which is greater or equal to $0$, allows the adjustment of temporal discounting. Increasing the discount factor offers stronger privacy protection, equivalent to that of user-level. Whereas, increasing the discount coefficient resembles the behavior of event-level differential privacy. Selecting a suitable value for the privacy budget and the discount parameter allows for bounding the overall privacy loss in an infinite observation scenario. -The assumption that all users discount previous data releases limits the applicability of the the current scheme in real-world scenarios. +However, the assumption that all users discount previous data releases limits the applicability of the the current scheme in real-world scenarios for statistical data.