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PANOPTICON: New Dataset Exposes Privacy Leaks in LLM Context Windows

ai-technology · 2026-07-29

Researchers have introduced the PANOPTICON pipeline and dataset to investigate privacy leakage within Large Language Model (LLM) context windows. The dataset, generated by Meta's Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct model, contains 67,718 prompts with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) spans derived from 9,674 publicly available synthetic user profiles. This addresses the lack of a public, authentic PII dataset due to ethical constraints. The study measures lexical and S-BERT diversity to evaluate realism and presents a case study demonstrating privacy risks. The work highlights the tension between LLM utility and privacy concerns, providing a tool for quantifying such risks.

Key facts

  • PANOPTICON pipeline and dataset introduced for investigating privacy leakage in LLMs
  • Dataset generated by Meta's Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct model
  • Contains 67,718 prompts with PII spans
  • Derived from 9,674 publicly available synthetic user profiles
  • Measures lexical diversity and S-BERT diversity for realism evaluation
  • Includes a case study showcasing privacy risks
  • Addresses lack of public authentic PII dataset due to ethics
  • Focuses on PII within LLM context window

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Institutions

  • Meta
  • arXiv

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