[Submitted on 24 Jul 2026]

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Abstract:trasgoDP is a modular, open-source, and easy-to-use Python framework for releasing tabular microdata under {\epsilon}-local differential privacy guarantees, as well as location data under geo-indistinguishability assumptions, designed to be installed and integrated within standard data science workflows. The software enables systematic exploration of privacy-utility trade-offs across multiple mechanisms, data types, and {\epsilon} values. While differential privacy has been extensively studied for aggregate data, its application to row-wise microdata release remains underexploited in terms of reusable software tools, a gap that is even more pronounced in the case of metric privacy and location-based data. trasgoDP implements local-DP mechanisms for numerical and categorical attributes (Laplace, Gaussian, Exponential, and Randomized Response), a geo-indistinguishability mechanism for location data, and a set of utility metrics, including a novel correlation-loss measure, to quantify information loss as a function of the allocated privacy budget. The objective of this work is to provide the research community with a reproducible, open-source baseline for evaluating tabular and location-based data publication methodologies under formal local differential privacy guarantees.

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From: Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz [view email]
[v1] Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:56:09 UTC (2,134 KB)