International Business Machines Corporation
VERIFIABLE SERVICE PROVIDER PERFORMANCE REGARDING QUERY RESPONSE PROVISION

Abstract:

One embodiment provides a computer implemented method, including: receiving, at a service provider from each of a plurality of data owners each having data accessible to the service provider, a privacy budget, wherein the privacy budget identifies a set of privacy requirements to be employed by the service provider on data of the data owner; receiving, at the service provider, a query from a client; receiving, at the service provider from each of at least a subset of the data owners, a response to the query; adding, by the service provider, noise to each of the responses, wherein an amount of noise added to each response is based upon the privacy budget of the data owner corresponding to a given response; and returning, by the service provider to the client, an aggregated response including the responses having added noise.