{
  "id": 10953,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13928v1",
  "title": "Plausible Deniability Guarantees for Whistleblowers",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Leo Richter, Matt J. Kusner",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance,transparency",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T15:09:55.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-16T05:10:56.605Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cslg",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.LG",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10953",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13928v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}