August 30, 2021
February 5, 2021
What is Differential Privacy? A Guide for Data Teams
In today’s day and age, we’re accustomed to technological advances and capabilities being uncovered all the time. However, mere availability does not necessarily correspond to immediate adoption. This is at least somewhat true for differential privacy. The first seminal contribution on the topic was published in 2006 by Microsoft Distinguished Scientist Cynthia Dwork,...
February 15, 2019
Differential Privacy: A Sound Way to Protect Private Data
Striking the privacy-utility balance is the central challenge to organizations handling sensitive data. Assessing the privacy side of the balance requires understanding how different privacy policies are undermined. This post will focus on one particular attack against privacy and show how two different privacy policies respond to this attack. In...