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Can quantum privacy protocols share more information while hiding more?
Yuuya Yoshida
May 26, 2026
Quantum local differential privacy — a quantum generalization of the gold standard in data privacy — can transmit at least 50% more useful information than its classical counterpart while providing equal privacy guarantees, as long as the private data has three or more possible values. The same 3/2 quantum advantage appears across multiple measures of utility, from mutual information to hypothesis-testing error rates, suggesting a deep structural reason rather than a coincidence. This sets a concrete benchmark for when quantum communication channels are worth using in privacy-sensitive applications.
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