Hiding sensitive data in a sea of noise might have more value than encryption in some use cases. Here are the most likely differential privacy applications and their trade-offs. In the past, the ...

Being able to share information about a group of people without compromising any individual person’s privacy kinda sounds like a form of wizardry. But it’s not. It’s just math. I say “just” not to ...

NIST announced the new guidelines on differential privacy guarantees and stated on its website that its goal is to help data-centric organizations strike a balance between privacy and accuracy.

When the U.S. Census Bureau releases the first local results with demographic breakdowns from the 2020 decennial census on Thursday, the numbers will reflect a new method for protecting the details of ...

Privacy-protecting databases use a number of techniques to guard data. The complexity of these techniques has evolved as threats to data privacy have risen ...

Once a decade, the U.S. Census Bureau undertakes the massive challenge of counting every single person in the nation. We’re all asked to share sensitive information about ourselves—such as race, sex, ...