Data analysis with performance and privacy enhanced classification

Abstract Privacy is the main concern in cyberspace because, every single click of a user on Internet is recognized and analyzed for different purposes like credit card purchase records, healthcare records, business, personalized shopping store experience to the user, deciding marketing strategy, and the list goes on. Here, the user’s personal information is considered a risk process. Though data mining applications focus on statistically useful patterns and not on the personal data of individuals, there is a threat of unrestricted access to individual records. Also, it is necessary to maintain the secrecy of data while retaining the accuracy of data classification and quality as well. For real-time applications, the data analytics carried out should be time efficient. Here, the proposed Convolution-based Privacy Preserving Algorithm (C-PPA) transforms the input into lower dimensions while preserving privacy which leads to better mining accuracy. The proposed algorithm is evaluated over different privacy-preserving metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-measure. Simulations carried out show that the average increment in the accuracy of C-PPA is 14.15 for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier when compared with results without C-PPA. Overlap-add C-PPA is proposed for parallel processing which is based on overlap-add convolution. It shows an average accuracy increment of 12.49 for CNN. The analytics show that the algorithm benefits regarding privacy preservation, data utility, and performance. Since the algorithm works on lowering the dimensions of data, the communication cost over the Internet is also reduced.