Authors: Mark Bun, Marco Gaboardi, Connor Wagaman

We resolve an open question of Jain, Raskhodnikova, Sivakumar, and Smith (ICML 2023) by exhibiting a problem separating differential privacy under continual observation in the oblivious and adaptive settings. The continual observation (a.k.a. continual release) model formalizes privacy for streaming algorithms, where data is received over…