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Articles for Differential Privacy

Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy

Salon  

Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized In statistics and machine learning, the goal is to learn from past data to make new predictions or inferences about future data. By checking the machine learning model’s performance on this validation dataset, developers can ensure that the model is able to generalize its …

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Census Bureau chief defends new privacy tool against critics
2 years ago

Census Bureau chief defends new privacy tool against critics

Associated Press  

The U.S. Census Bureau’s chief is defending a new tool meant to protect the privacy of people participating in the statistical agency’s questionnaires against calls to abandon it by prominent researchers who claim it jeopardizes the usefulness of numbers that are the foundation of the nation’s data infrastructure. The tool known as differential privacy “was selected as the best solution …

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AP interview: Census director aims to restore trust in count
2 years, 4 months ago

AP interview: Census director aims to restore trust in count

Associated Press  

The next U.S. census isn’t until 2030, but already Census Bureau leaders are looking for ways to adapt to a roiled civic climate that only seems to be getting more contentious. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press that the statistical agency is planning to start its outreach efforts with hard-to-reach communities earlier, …

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Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method
2 years, 4 months ago

Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method

Associated Press  

Prominent demographers are asking the U.S. Census Bureau to abandon a controversial method for protecting survey and census participants’ confidentiality, saying it is jeopardizing the usability of numbers that are the foundation of the nation’s data infrastructure. The Census Bureau embraced using differential privacy algorithms for the first time with the release last year of the first round of 2020 …

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People, homes vanish due to 2020 census’ new privacy method
3 years, 1 month ago

People, homes vanish due to 2020 census’ new privacy method

Associated Press  

The three-bedroom colonial-style house where Jessica Stephenson has lived in Milwaukee for the last six years bustles with activity on any given weekday, filled with the chattering of children in the day care center she runs out of her home. From her majority-Black neighborhood in Wisconsin to a community of Hasidic Jews in New York’s Catskill Mountains to a park …

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Alabama drops lawsuit challenging Census privacy method
3 years, 3 months ago

Alabama drops lawsuit challenging Census privacy method

Associated Press  

The state of Alabama on Thursday asked to dismiss its lawsuit challenging the U.S. Census Bureau’s use of a controversial statistical method aimed at keeping people’s data private in the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. Alabama and three Alabama politicians had sued the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, in an effort to stop the statistical …

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Census Bureau dodges challenge to controversial privacy tool
3 years, 5 months ago

Census Bureau dodges challenge to controversial privacy tool

Associated Press  

The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday dodged a challenge for now to its use of a controversial statistical method aimed at keeping people’s data private in the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts after federal judges refused to stop the technique’s implementation. A panel of three federal judges in Alabama rejected the state of Alabama’s request for a …

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Harvard researchers recommend Census not use privacy tool
3 years, 6 months ago

Harvard researchers recommend Census not use privacy tool

Associated Press  

A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau’s use of a controversial method to protect privacy with the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts, saying it doesn’t produce data good enough for redistricting. The Harvard researchers said in a paper released last week that using the new privacy method will make it impossible …

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For The U.S. Census, Keeping Your Data Anonymous And Useful Is A Tricky Balance
3 years, 7 months ago

For The U.S. Census, Keeping Your Data Anonymous And Useful Is A Tricky Balance

NPR  

For The U.S. Census, Keeping Your Data Anonymous And Useful Is A Tricky Balance Enlarge this image toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP Mary Altaffer/AP As the country waits for more results from last year's national head count, the U.S. Census Bureau is facing an increasingly tricky balancing act. Sponsor Message Ahead of the data's release, the bureau has warned users about …

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Commerce Secretary Raimondo defends census privacy method
3 years, 8 months ago

Commerce Secretary Raimondo defends census privacy method

Associated Press  

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Wednesday defended a controversial privacy technique being used by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2020 census, a method the agency promised would only make small changes to actual numbers in counts of racial and ethnic groups. “So in order for us to keep up with that and protect people’s privacy, we have to implement …

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