diff --git a/blog/posts/differential-privacy.md b/blog/posts/differential-privacy.md index 7e57a196..0e96da53 100644 --- a/blog/posts/differential-privacy.md +++ b/blog/posts/differential-privacy.md @@ -211,3 +211,4 @@ Considering 309 million people lived in the U.S. in 2010, that's a devastating b >Nationwide, roughly 150 million individuals—almost one-half of the population, have a unique combination of sex and single year of age at the block level. +They could keep adding noise until these attacks are impossible, but that would make the data nigh unusable. Instead, differential privacy offers a mathematically regiorous method to protect the data from future reidentification attacks without ruining the data by adding too much noise. They can be sure thanks to the mathematical guarantees of DP. \ No newline at end of file