Local Differential Privacy and Its Applications: A Comprehensive Survey

Understand

With the fast development of Information Technology, a tremendous amount of data have been generated and collected for research and analysis purposes.

• As an increasing number of users are growing concerned about their personal information, privacy preservation has become an urgent problem to be solved and has attracted significant attention.
• Local differential privacy (LDP), as a strong privacy tool, has been widely deployed in the real world in recent years.
• It breaks the shackles of the trusted third party, and allows users to perturb their data locally, thus providing much stronger privacy protection.