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Differential privacy and federal data releases

Publication ,  Journal Article
Reiter, JP
Published in: Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
March 7, 2019

Federal statistics agencies strive to release data products that are informative for many purposes, yet also protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects' identities and sensitive attributes. This article reviews the role that differential privacy, a disclosure risk criterion developed in the cryptography community, can and does play in federal data releases. The article describes potential benefits and limitations of using differential privacy for federal data, reviews current federal data products that satisfy differential privacy, and outlines research needed for adoption of differential privacy to become widespread among federal agencies.

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Published In

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

DOI

EISSN

2326-831X

ISSN

2326-8298

Publication Date

March 7, 2019

Volume

6

Start / End Page

85 / 101

Related Subject Headings

  • 4905 Statistics
  • 0104 Statistics
  • 0103 Numerical and Computational Mathematics
 

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Reiter, J. P. (2019). Differential privacy and federal data releases. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 6, 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105142
Reiter, J. P. “Differential privacy and federal data releases.” Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application 6 (March 7, 2019): 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105142.
Reiter JP. Differential privacy and federal data releases. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 2019 Mar 7;6:85–101.
Reiter, J. P. “Differential privacy and federal data releases.” Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, vol. 6, Mar. 2019, pp. 85–101. Scopus, doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105142.
Reiter JP. Differential privacy and federal data releases. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 2019 Mar 7;6:85–101.

Published In

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

DOI

EISSN

2326-831X

ISSN

2326-8298

Publication Date

March 7, 2019

Volume

6

Start / End Page

85 / 101

Related Subject Headings

  • 4905 Statistics
  • 0104 Statistics
  • 0103 Numerical and Computational Mathematics