Privacy protection against curious recommenders

A method and apparatus for protecting user privacy in a recommender system are described including determining what information to release to a user for a movie, transmitting the information to the user, accepting obfuscated input from the user and estimating the user's non-private feature vect...

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Main Authors TAFT NINA ANNE, FAWAZ NADIA, BHAGAT SMRITI, MONTANARI ANDREA F, IOANNIDIS EFSTRATIOS, WEINSBERG EHUD
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 21.10.2015
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Summary:A method and apparatus for protecting user privacy in a recommender system are described including determining what information to release to a user for a movie, transmitting the information to the user, accepting obfuscated input from the user and estimating the user's non-private feature vector. Also described are a method and apparatus for protecting user privacy in a recommender system including receiving movie information, accepting a user's movie feedback, accepting user's private information, calculating an obfuscation value and transmitting the obfuscation value.
Bibliography:Application Number: CN2013871863