NDLI: Buying private data at auction:the sensitive surveyor's problem

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Roth, Aaron
Abstract	In this letter, we survey some recent work on what we call the sensitive surveyor's problem. A curious data analyst wishes to survey a population to obtain an accurate estimate of a simple population statistic: for example, the fraction of the population testing positive for syphilis. However, because this is a statistic over sensitive data, individuals experience a cost for participating in the survey as a function of their loss in privacy. Agents must be compensated for this cost, and moreover, are strategic agents and will mis-report their cost if doing so is beneficial for them. The goal of the surveyor is to manage the inevitable tradeoff between the cost of the survey, and the accuracy of its results.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	8
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15519031
DOI	10.1145/2325713.2325714
Journal	ACM SIGecom Exchanges (SECO)
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2003-03-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Privacy Mechanism design
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Buying private data at auction:the sensitive surveyor's problem