Paper ID: 2407.16929

Synthetic Data, Similarity-based Privacy Metrics, and Regulatory (Non-)Compliance

Georgi Ganev

In this paper, we argue that similarity-based privacy metrics cannot ensure regulatory compliance of synthetic data. Our analysis and counter-examples show that they do not protect against singling out and linkability and, among other fundamental issues, completely ignore the motivated intruder test.

Submitted: Jul 24, 2024