TY - CONF T1 - Anti-discrimination analysis using privacy attack strategies T2 - Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases Y1 - 2014 A1 - Salvatore Ruggieri A1 - Sara Hajian A1 - Kamiran, Faisal A1 - Zhang, Xiangliang AB - Social discrimination discovery from data is an important task to identify illegal and unethical discriminatory patterns towards protected-by-law groups, e.g., ethnic minorities. We deploy privacy attack strategies as tools for discrimination discovery under hard assumptions which have rarely tackled in the literature: indirect discrimination discovery, privacy-aware discrimination discovery, and discrimination data recovery. The intuition comes from the intriguing parallel between the role of the anti-discrimination authority in the three scenarios above and the role of an attacker in private data publishing. We design strategies and algorithms inspired/based on Frèchet bounds attacks, attribute inference attacks, and minimality attacks to the purpose of unveiling hidden discriminatory practices. Experimental results show that they can be effective tools in the hands of anti-discrimination authorities. JF - Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases PB - Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg ER -