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Internet of Things devices have become highly popular thanks to the services they offer. However, they also raise privacy concerns since they share fine-grained time-series user data with untrusted third parties. We model the user’s personal information as the secret variable, to be kept private from an honest-but-curious service provider, and the useful variable, to be disclosed for utility. We consider an active learning framework, where one out of a finite set of measurement mechanisms is chosen at each time step, each revealing some information about the underlying secret and useful variables, albeit with different statistics. The measurements are taken such that the correct value of useful variable can be detected quickly, while the confidence on the secret variable remains below a predefined level. For privacy measure, we consider both the probability of correctly detecting the secret variable value and the mutual …