arXiv AI By Minsun Shim, Ramisha Raida Karim, Ruthwik Jakkula, Kaiwen Zhou, Xin Liu, Xin Eric Wang, Zhou Li

Confuse the Model, Control the Flow: Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Leakage from LLM Agents with Information Flow Control

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PrivacyFlow: Privacy in AI Agents through Information Flow Analysis and Consequence-Aware Risk Management

PrivacyFlow introduces a new benchmark, PrivacyBench, and a defense system that separates privacy planning from task execution in autonomous LLM agents. The system traces data provenance, models recipient knowledge, and simulates inference attacks to weigh disclosure risk against task utility, allowing it to minimize or block data sharing. Experiments show that PrivacyFlow reduces privacy failures and increases completed task sequences by 22–55 percentage points, while revealing a tradeoff between privacy, utility, and user autonomy.

By Robin Staab, Tom Wollschl\"ager, Vahab Mirrokni, Reza Shokri