MaskIt: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications

Summary: MaskIt filters context streams to privately preserve user privacy while enabling personalized apps. Two novel privacy checks decide release vs suppression under adversaries with system knowledge; validated on 91 real traces. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4593
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 6.1972571e-05
Overall Rank: 5,499 | 62.28%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213870

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michaela Götz (Cornell University; Twitter)
2. Suman Nath (Microsoft)
3. Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gotz_sigmod12,
        title = {{MaskIt: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications}},
        author = {Götz, Michaela and Nath, Suman and Gehrke, Johannes},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213870},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213870},
        year = {2012}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,012	LocLok: Location Cloaking with Differential Privacy via Hidden Markov Model	2017	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,252	Utility-Maximizing Event Stream Suppression	2013	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
528	On Active Learning of Record Matching Packages	2010	SIGMOD	0.00017100838
1,295	Minimality Attack in Privacy Preserving Data Publishing	2007	VLDB	0.00011272398
2,255	Attacks on Privacy and deFinetti's Theorem	2009	SIGMOD	8.8595313e-05
3,099	Private Queries in Location Based Services: Anonymizers are not Necessary	2008	SIGMOD	7.7612638e-05
3,296	Towards Robustness in Query Auditing	2006	VLDB	7.5459953e-05
7,241	On the Complexity of Privacy-Preserving Complex Event Processing	2011	PODS	5.6643118e-05

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