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We examine the information-theoretic foundations of the increasingly popular notion of differential privacy. We establish a connection between differential private mechanisms and the rate-distortion framework. Additionally, we also show how differentially private distributions arise out of the application of the Maximum Entropy Principle. This helps us locate differential privacy within the wider framework of information-theory and helps formalize some intuitive aspects of our understanding of differential privacy.
This work was supported by NSF award number CCF-1018445.
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Mir, D.J. (2013). Information-Theoretic Foundations of Differential Privacy. In: Garcia-Alfaro, J., Cuppens, F., Cuppens-Boulahia, N., Miri, A., Tawbi, N. (eds) Foundations and Practice of Security. FPS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7743. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37119-6_25
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