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Synthetic data generation offers a way to share sensitive information, but privacy must be proven. This study presents a framework to evaluate privacy risks, recommending against similarity metrics and focusing on membership and attribute disclosure for better protection.

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Data Privacy
  • Statistical Modeling

Background:

  • Synthetic data generation is crucial for secondary data use in sensitive sectors.
  • Ensuring individual privacy in synthetic data is essential for ethical and legal compliance.
  • Existing privacy evaluation metrics often lack clear interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a consensus-based framework for evaluating privacy in synthetic data.
  • To identify and recommend effective metrics for assessing privacy risks.
  • To guide the responsible adoption of synthetic data generation.

Main Methods:

  • Expert consensus process to develop a privacy evaluation framework.
  • Analysis of commonly used privacy metrics and their limitations.
  • Identification of key disclosure types: membership and attribute disclosure.

Main Results:

  • Commonly used similarity metrics between real and synthetic data lack precise interpretation and should be avoided for privacy evaluation.
  • Consensus was reached on the importance of evaluating membership and attribute disclosure.
  • The proposed framework offers recommendations for measuring these disclosures effectively.

Conclusions:

  • A robust framework for synthetic data privacy evaluation is established, prioritizing membership and attribute disclosure.
  • The framework's recommendations are applicable to differentially private synthetic data.
  • Further research is needed to support the widespread adoption of privacy-preserving synthetic data.