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Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Series: Differential Privacy
Is it possible to collect data from a large group of people but protect each individual's privacy? In this entry of my series on privacy-enhancing technologies, we'll discuss differential privacy and how it can do just that.
Problem
It's useful to collect data from a large group of people. You can see trends in a population. But it requires a lot of individual people to give up personally identifiable information. Even things that seem inocuous like your gender can help identify you. 87% of Americans can be identified by three pieces of information:
History
Most of the concepts I write about seem to come from the 70's and 80's, but differential privacy is a relatively new concept. It was first introduced in a paper from 2006 called Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis
