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Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy — mentioned by ergl

Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:08:46 GMT

It's not far-fetched. Differential privacy is going to be used for the US census this year. Here's a report on it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02201 Also, it's not a magical solution. Here's one of the issues from the linked paper (edited for clarity): "The proponents of differential privacy have always maintained that the setting of the [trade-off between privacy loss (ε) and accuracy] is a policy question, not a technical one. [...] To date, the Census committee has set the values of ε far higher than those envisioned by the creators of differential privacy. (In their contemporaneous…

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Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy — mentioned by jackpirate

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:38:05 GMT

The US Census famously used differential privacy in their most recent surveys. They have a quite extensive analysis of the tradeoffs they had to make to ensure everyone's privacy, and there is a fairly large body of academic work that analyzes (e.g.) the economic impact of this privacy preservation. The general consensus AFAIK is that they did a great job. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02201 for the main paper from the Census.

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Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy — HN submission

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 21:40:42 GMT

Issues encountered deploying differential privacy for the 2020 US Census

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Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy — HN submission

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:53:39 GMT

Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy [pdf]

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