A Rigorous and Customizable Framework for Privacy

Summary: Pufferfish: a rigorous, customizable privacy framework enabling domain experts to specify secrets, discriminative pairs, and data-generation constraints to derive application-specific privacy definitions. Subsumes and clarifies differential privacy's independence assumption, generalizes composition, protects unbounded continuous/aggregate attributes, and accounts for prior releases. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1566
Venue: PODS
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 6.3969504e-05
Overall Rank: 5,027 | 65.52%
DOI: 10.1145/2213556.2213571

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State University)
2. Ashwin Machanavajjhala (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kifer_pods12,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '12},
        title = {{A Rigorous and Customizable Framework for Privacy}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213556.2213571},
        doi = {10.1145/2213556.2213571},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Kifer, Daniel and Machanavajjhala, Ashwin},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,562	Blowfish Privacy: Tuning Privacy-Utility Trade-offs using Policies	2014	SIGMOD	8.4127196e-05
4,881	Utility Cost of Formal Privacy for Releasing National Employer-Employee Statistics	2017	SIGMOD	6.465615e-05
5,327	Real-World Trajectory Sharing with Local Differential Privacy	2021	VLDB	6.2639736e-05
6,772	PrivGene: Differentially Private Model Fitting Using Genetic Algorithms	2013	SIGMOD	5.7782652e-05
10,914	Calibrating Noise for Group Privacy in Subsampled Mechanisms	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,079	Design of Policy-Aware Differentially Private Algorithms	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
62	Privacy Integrated Queries: An Extensible Platform for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00038970535
572	Anatomy: Simple and Effective Privacy Preservation	2006	VLDB	0.00016316092
855	Relationship Privacy: Output Perturbation for Queries with Joins	2009	PODS	0.00013579513
1,230	No Free Lunch in Data Privacy	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011572271
4,407	Towards an Axiomatization of Statistical Privacy and Utility	2010	PODS	6.719141e-05

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