Differential privacy for eye tracking with temporal correlations

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Beitragende

  • Efe Bozkir - , Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Autor:in)
  • Onur Gunlu - , Universität Siegen (Autor:in)
  • Wolfgang Fuhl - , Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Autor:in)
  • Rafael F. Schaefer - , Universität Siegen (Autor:in)
  • Enkelejda Kasneci - , Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Autor:in)

Abstract

New generation head-mounted displays, such as VR and AR glasses, are coming into the market with already integrated eye tracking and are expected to enable novel ways of human-computer interaction in numerous applications. However, since eye movement properties contain biometric information, privacy concerns have to be handled properly. Privacy- preservation techniques such as differential privacy mechanisms have recently been applied to eye movement data obtained from such displays. Standard differential privacy mechanisms; however, are vulnerable due to temporal correlations between the eye movement observations. In this work, we propose a novel transform-coding based differential privacy mechanism to further adapt it to the statistics of eye movement feature data and compare various low-complexity methods. We extend the Fourier perturbation algorithm, which is a differential privacy mechanism, and correct a scaling mistake in its proof. Furthermore, we illustrate significant reductions in sample correlations in addition to query sensitivities, which provide the best utility-privacy trade-off in the eye tracking literature. Our results provide significantly high privacy without any essential loss in classification accuracies while hiding personal identifiers.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummere0255979
FachzeitschriftPloS one
Jahrgang16
Ausgabenummer8
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Aug. 2021
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 34403454
ORCID /0000-0002-1702-9075/work/165878269

Schlagworte

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