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๐Ÿ” privacylens

Audit any ML model for privacy vulnerabilities โ€” in 3 lines of code.

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๐ŸŽฏ What is privacylens?

Most ML engineers don't know if their model is leaking private training data. privacylens audits it.

from privacylens import audit

report = audit(model, X_train, y_train, X_test)
report.summary()
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โ”‚             ๐Ÿ” privacylens โ€” Privacy Audit Report            โ”‚
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โ”‚ Check                        โ”‚ Score      โ”‚ Risk            โ”‚
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โ”‚ Membership Inference Attack  โ”‚ 0.087      โ”‚ LOW             โ”‚
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Model: RandomForestClassifier
Overall Risk: LOW

โ€ข MIA advantage score: 0.087 โ€” model shows low Membership Inference vulnerability.

โœจ Features

  • ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Membership Inference Attack (MIA) โ€” Detect if an attacker can identify training records using a shadow model approach (Shokri et al., 2017)
  • ๐ŸŒ Framework agnostic โ€” Works with scikit-learn, XGBoost, and any model with predict_proba()
  • ๐ŸŽจ Beautiful terminal output โ€” Rich colour-coded risk tables with LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH classification
  • ๐Ÿค– CLI + Python API โ€” Use in scripts or integrate into CI/CD pipelines
  • ๐Ÿ“Š JSON output โ€” Machine-readable results for dashboards and reporting

Coming in future releases:

  • ๐Ÿ”ข PII leakage detection in model embeddings
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Model inversion risk scoring
  • ๐Ÿค— HuggingFace Transformers adapter
  • ๐Ÿ“„ HTML compliance report export

๐Ÿ“ฆ Installation

# Base install (scikit-learn models)
pip install privacyaudit

# With PyTorch support
pip install "privacyaudit[torch]"

# With XGBoost support
pip install "privacyaudit[xgboost]"

# Everything
pip install "privacyaudit[all]"

Note: The PyPI package is privacyaudit. Import as from privacylens import audit.


๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.datasets import make_classification
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from privacylens import audit

# Train a model
X, y = make_classification(n_samples=1000, n_features=20, random_state=42)
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.3)

model = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100)
model.fit(X_train, y_train)

# Audit it for privacy vulnerabilities
report = audit(model, X_train, y_train, X_test, y_test)
report.summary()

# Get results as dict (for JSON logging)
print(report.to_dict())

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ CLI Usage

# Audit a saved model
privacylens audit model.pkl train.csv test.csv

# JSON output for CI/CD integration
privacylens audit model.pkl train.csv test.csv --output json

# Skip MIA check
privacylens audit model.pkl train.csv test.csv --no-mia

๐Ÿ—๏ธ Architecture

privacylens/
โ”œโ”€โ”€ src/privacylens/
โ”‚   โ”œโ”€โ”€ __init__.py         # Public API: audit(), AuditReport
โ”‚   โ”œโ”€โ”€ auditor.py          # Main orchestrator
โ”‚   โ”œโ”€โ”€ attacks/
โ”‚   โ”‚   โ””โ”€โ”€ membership.py   # MIA engine (shadow model + attack classifier)
โ”‚   โ””โ”€โ”€ cli.py              # Click CLI
โ””โ”€โ”€ tests/
    โ”œโ”€โ”€ test_auditor.py
    โ””โ”€โ”€ test_membership.py

๐Ÿ“– Risk Score Interpretation

MIA Score Risk Level Meaning
0.0 โ€“ 0.10 ๐ŸŸข LOW Model reveals minimal membership information
0.10 โ€“ 0.30 ๐ŸŸก MEDIUM Some memorisation risk โ€” review training data
0.30 โ€“ 1.00 ๐Ÿ”ด HIGH Model likely memorising training records

๐Ÿค Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. All contributions welcome!

๐Ÿ“„ License

MIT โ€” see LICENSE.

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