Eilat, Ran; Eliaz, Kfir; Mu, Xiaosheng - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 4, pp. 1557-1603
information about individuals. This has led to public discussions on whether individuals' privacy should be better protected by … contribute to this discussion by proposing a Bayesian approach to measure loss of privacy in a mechanism. Specifically, we define … the loss of privacy associated with a mechanism as the difference between the designer's prior and posterior beliefs about …