IACR News item: 13 August 2025
Sam Buxbaum, Lucas M. Tassis, Lucas Boschelli, Giovanni Comarela, Mayank Varia, Mark Crovella, Dino P. Christenson
We present a real-world deployment of secure multiparty
computation to predict political preference from private web browsing
data. To estimate aggregate preferences for the 2024 U.S. presidential
election candidates, we collect and analyze secret-shared data from nearly
8000 users from August 2024 through February 2025, with over 2000
daily active users sustained throughout the bulk of the survey. The use
of MPC allows us to compute over sensitive web browsing data that
users would otherwise be more hesitant to provide. We collect data us-
ing a custom-built Chrome browser extension and perform our analysis
using the CrypTen MPC library. To our knowledge, we provide the first
implementation under MPC of a model for the learning from label pro-
portions (LLP) problem in machine learning, which allows us to train on
unlabeled web browsing data using publicly available polling and elec-
tion results as the ground truth. The client code is open source, and the
remaining code will be open source in the future.
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