Privacy-Constrained Communication

Farhad Farokhi; Girish Nair

Conference Proceedings

Privacy-Constrained Communication

Farhad Farokhi, Girish Nair

IFAC-PapersOnLine | Elsevier | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.370

Abstract

A game is introduced to study the effect of privacy in strategic communication between a well-informed sender and a receiver. The receiver wants to accurately estimate a random variable. The sender, however, wants to communicate a message that balances a trade-off between providing an accurate measurement and minimizing the amount of leaked private information, which is assumed to be correlated with the to-be-estimated variable. The mutual information between the transmitted message and the private information is used as a measure of the amount of leaked information. An equilibrium is constructed and its properties are investigated.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Farhad Farokhi Author

Girish Nair Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

The work of F.Farokhi was supported by a McKenzie Fellowship, ARC grant LP130100605, agrant from Melbourne School of Engineering. The work of G.Nair was supported by ARC grants DP140100819 and FT140100527.