Aim high, stay private: differentially private synthetic data enables public release of behavioral health information with high utility.
Sharing behavioral health and wearable data poses privacy challenges, as traditional de-identification remains vulnerable to re-identification. Differential privacy (DP) provides mathematical guarantees through a tunable privacy budget, ϵ . This study evaluates the feasibility of generating and releasing DP synthetic behavioral health data with high analytical utility, identifying practical ϵ values for public data sharing.
Author(s): Ghasemizade, Mohsen, Lovato, Juniper, Danforth, Chris, Dodds, Peter Sheridan, Bloomfield, Laura S P, Price, Matthew, Near, Joseph
DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooag066