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PDF	Differential Privacy Overview The Apple differential privacy implementation incorporates the concept of a per-donation privacy budget (quantified by the parameter epsilon) and sets a strict limit on the number of contributions from a user in order to preserve their privacy

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Learning with Privacy at Scale

Abstract Understanding how people use their devices often helps in improving the user experience However accessing the data that provides such insights — for example what users type on their keyboards and the websites they visit — can compromise user privacy We design a system architecture that enables learning at scale by leveraging local diff

PDF	Privacy Loss in Apples Implementation of Differential In June 2016 Apple made a bold announcement that it will deploy local diferential privacy for some of their user data collection in order to ensure privacy of user data even from Apple [21 23] The details of Apple’s approach remained sparse

What are local differentially private algorithms?
We now describe three local differentially private algorithms in the following sections. The Private Count Mean Sketch algorithm (CMS) aggregates records submitted by devices and outputs a histogram of counts over a dictionary of domain elements, while preserving local differential privacy.
What is differential privacy?
In general, differential privacy is defined for algorithms with input databases of size larger than 1. In the local model of differential privacy, algorithms may only access the data via the output of a local randomizer so that no raw data is stored on a server. Formally: Definition 3.2 (Local Differential Privacy ). Let A : Dn !
Can information design solve the problem of differentially private data publication?
Our analysis introduces the tools of information design to the problem of differentially private data publication. Several applications suggest generalizations of our setting. First, in many settings, data users interact with one another, instead of making inde-pendent decisions.
Does a system architecture combine differential privacy and privacy best practices?
In this paper, we describe a system architecture that combines differential privacy and privacy best practices to learn from a user population addressing both privacy and practical deployment concerns. Differential privacy provides a mathematically rigorous definition of privacy and is one of the strongest guarantees of privacy available.

Differential Privacy Team, Apple

Abstract Understanding how people use their devices often helps in improving the user experience. However, accessing the data that provides such insights — for example, what users type on their keyboards and the websites they visit — can compromise user privacy. We design a system architecture that enables learning at scale by leveraging local diff

1 Introduction

Gaining insight into the overall user population is crucial to improving the user experience. For example, what new words are trending? Which health categories are most popular with users? Which websites cause excessive energy drain? The data needed to derive such insights is personal and sensitive, and must be kept private. In addition to privacy

3.1 Differential Privacy

We first define a local randomizer which we will use in the definition of local differential privacy. docs-assets.developer.apple.com

3.2 System Architecture

Our system architecture consists of device- and server-side data processing. On the device, the privatization stage ensures raw data is made differentially private. The restricted-access server does data processing that can be further divided into the ingestion and aggregation stages. We explain each stage in detail below. User device Restricted-ac

3.2.2 Ingestion and Aggregation

The privatized records are first stripped of their IP addresses prior to entering the ingestor. The ingestor then collects the data from all users and processes them in a batch. The batch process removes metadata, such as the timestamps of privatized records received, and separates these records based on their use case. The ingestor also randomly p

4 Algorithms

Of relevance to our algorithms is the count sketch algorithm [4] which finds frequently reported data ele-ments along with accurate counts from a stream. We also use a sketch matrix data structure to compute counts for a collection of privatized domain elements. However, to ensure differential privacy, our algo-rithms deviate significantly. We next

4.1 Private Count Mean Sketch

We develop a local differentially private algorithm that outputs a histogram of counts over domain for a dataset consisting of n records. At a high level, Count Mean Sketch (CMS) is composed of a client-side D algorithm and a server-side algorithm. The client-side algorithm ensures that the data that leaves the user’s device is ✏-differentially pri

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H) = ( ̃v, j)]◆  Because CMS is a post-processing function of the outputs from CMS, we then have that CMS is ✏-local differentially private. Aclient docs-assets.developer.apple.com

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H) = ( ̃v, j)]◆  ✏. Because HCMS is a post-processing function of the outputs from Aclient HCMS, we then have that HCMS is ✏-local differentially private. docs-assets.developer.apple.com

6 Results

We deploy our algorithms across hundreds of millions of devices. We present results for the following use cases: New Words, Popular Emojis, Video Playback Preferences (Auto-play Intent) in Safari, High Energy and Memory Usage in Safari, and Popular HealthKit Usage. docs-assets.developer.apple.com

7 Conclusion

In this paper, we have presented a novel learning system architecture, which leverages local differential privacy and combines it with privacy best practices. To scale our system across millions of users and a variety of use cases, we have developed local differentially private algorithms – CMS, HCMS, and SFP – for both the known and unknown dictio

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· {d(i) = d}. We first prove the case when d(i) = d. We will use the property of the Hadamard matrix that its columns are orthogonal. docs-assets.developer.apple.com

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