***Attribute Inference.*** In an attribute inference attack, the attacker uses the data release to infer global properties of sensitive attributes in the dataset. As described in this paper introducing attribute privacy, these global properties pertain to the dataset itself or the underlying distribution from which the dataset is sampled, rather than to individuals in the dataset. In the first case, for example, a hospital may wish to protect the incidence of a disease in its patients,, even if the prevalence of that disease in the broader population is public information. In the second case, a pharmaceutical company may want to protect its experimental findings about the effect of a new drug on the population. However, other papers consider individual-level attribute inferences, separating sensitive from non-sensitive attributes. This paper provides a nice overview of different definitions related to attribute inference.
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