Recommendation systems try to infer their users’ interests in order to suggest items relevant to them. These systems thus offer a valuable service to users in that they automatically filter non-relevant information, which avoids the nowadays common issue of information overload. This is why recommendation systems are now popular, if not pervasive in some domains such as the World Wide Web. However, an individual’s interests are personal and private data, such as one’s political or religious orientation. Therefore, recommendation systems gather private data and their widespread use calls for privacy-preserving mechanisms. In this thesis, we study the privacy of users’ interests in the family of recommendation systems called Collaborative Fil...