Blowfish Privacy: Tuning Privacy-Utility Trade-offs using Policies

Summary: Blowfish privacy: Pufferfish-inspired DP extension with secrets and constraints. Policy-driven tradeoffs yield lower noise: k-means, histograms, queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4787
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2014
Pagerank: 9.2488181e-05
Overall Rank: 2,228 | 84.52%
DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2588581

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1,740	PrivateSQL: A Differentially Private SQL Query Engine	2019	VLDB	0.00010696383
2,224	Publishing Graph Degree Distribution with Node Differential Privacy	2016	SIGMOD	9.256869e-05
3,178	Bayesian Differential Privacy on Correlated Data	2015	SIGMOD	7.4350161e-05
4,461	Pufferfish Privacy Mechanisms for Correlated Data	2017	SIGMOD	6.1571961e-05
4,742	Differentially Private Binary- and Matrix-Valued Data Query: An XOR Mechanism	2021	VLDB	5.9502732e-05
5,249	Utility Cost of Formal Privacy for Releasing National Employer-Employee Statistics	2017	SIGMOD	5.600946e-05
5,521	OpBoost: A Vertical Federated Tree Boosting Framework Based on Order-Preserving Desensitization	2023	VLDB	5.4671745e-05
5,552	Differential Privacy in the Wild: A tutorial on current practices & open challenges	2016	VLDB	5.4413452e-05
5,700	Differential Privacy in the Wild: A Tutorial on Current Practices & Open Challenges	2017	SIGMOD	5.3655082e-05
6,886	Synthesizing Linked Data Under Cardinality and Integrity Constraints	2021	SIGMOD	4.8904572e-05
7,416	DProvDB: Differentially Private Query Processing with Multi-Analyst Provenance	2023	SIGMOD	4.7309698e-05
10,728	Balancing Privacy and Utility in Correlated Data: A Study of Bayesian Differential Privacy	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,221	F3 KM: Federated, Fair, and Fast k-means	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,531	Catch a Blowfish Alive: A Demonstration of Policy-Aware Differential Privacy for Interactive Data Exploration	2021	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,627	PANDA: Policy-aware Location Privacy for Epidemic Surveillance	2020	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,887	Design of Policy-Aware Differentially Private Algorithms	2016	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
178	Boosting the Accuracy of Differentially Private Histograms Through Consistency	2010	VLDB	0.00037726596
567	Practical Privacy: The SuLQ Framework	2005	PODS	0.00019940193
714	Understanding Hierarchical Methods for Differentially Private Histograms	2013	VLDB	0.00017670757
1,463	No Free Lunch in Data Privacy	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011856229
3,875	Personalized Social Recommendations - Accurate or Private?	2011	VLDB	6.6704791e-05
4,185	Towards an Axiomatization of Statistical Privacy and Utility	2010	PODS	6.3713506e-05
4,473	A Rigorous and Customizable Framework for Privacy	2012	PODS	6.1483804e-05

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