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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...