2015/09/18 by Farhad Farokhi, Farokhi, Farhad, Girish N. Nair +1
Decision Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Mathematics #Game Theory and Applications #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Wireless Communication Security Techniques #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1509.05502
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A game is introduced to study the effect of privacy in strategic communication between well-informed senders and a receiver. The receiver wants to accurately estimate a random variable. The sender, however, wants to communicate a message that balances a trade-off between providing an accurate measurement and minimizing the amount of leaked private information, which is assumed to be correlated with the to-be-estimated variable. The mutual information between the transmitted message and the private information is used as a measure of the amount of leaked information. An equilibrium is constructed and its properties are investigated.