Plausible Deniability Guarantees for Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers are a key safeguard against organizational wrongdoing, but the threat of retaliation deters reporting. Existing whistleblower-protection proposals lack formal privacy guarantees, and existing differential privacy mechanisms do not directly target the natural threat model -- one in which the audited organization itself observes auditor selection decisions and uses them to identify reporters. We formalize protection against a strong-adversary threat model as per-report $(0, δ)$-diff
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Published: 15 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.LG
Category: Research
Topics: Privacy · Transparency
Retrieved: 16 July 2026
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