Privacy Implications of Database Ranking
Summary: Ranking-based retrieval in structured DBs leaks private attributes via ranking signals. Taxonomy by query UI and adversary; per subspace, novel techniques infer private attributes; validated by theory and empirical attacks on Goodreads and Renren. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Md Farhadur Rahman
- 2. Weimo Liu
- 3. Saravanan Thirumuruganathan
- 4. Nan Zhang
- 5. Gautam Das
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,502 | Heterogeneous Recommendations: What You Might Like To Read After Watching Interstellar | 2017 | VLDB | 4.7135369e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] | 2001 | PODS | 0.0015436578 |
| 427 | Automated Ranking of Database Query Results | 2003 | CIDR | 0.0002350378 |
| 1,363 | Range Queries in OLAP Data Cubes | 1997 | SIGMOD | 0.00012380611 |
| 1,612 | A Unified Approach to Ranking in Probabilistic Databases | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00011142757 |
| 1,996 | Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results | 2004 | VLDB | 9.8374939e-05 |
| 5,141 | A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.6627467e-05 |
| 8,680 | Unbiased Estimation of Size and Other Aggregates Over Hidden Web Databases | 2010 | SIGMOD | 4.4634799e-05 |
| 12,096 | Rank Discovery From Web Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,273 | Efficient and Generic Evaluation of Ranked Queries | 2011 | SIGMOD | 4.775366e-05 |
| 427 | Automated Ranking of Database Query Results | 2003 | CIDR | 0.0002350378 |
| 1,996 | Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results | 2004 | VLDB | 9.8374939e-05 |
| 2,461 | Principled Evaluation of Differentially Private Algorithms using DPBench | 2016 | SIGMOD | 8.7486072e-05 |
| 8,132 | Discovering the Skyline of Web Databases | 2016 | VLDB | 4.5741104e-05 |
| 12,309 | Privacy Preservation of Aggregates in Hidden Databases: Why and How? | 2009 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 11,891 | Query Reranking As A Service | 2016 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 4,775 | Practical Private Range Search Revisited | 2016 | SIGMOD | 5.9275924e-05 |
| 1,383 | A Privacy-Preserving Index for Range Queries | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00012262651 |
| 12,096 | Rank Discovery From Web Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |