Differential Privacy for Statistics: What we Know and What we Want to Learn

We motivate and review the definition of differential privacy, survey some results on differentially private statistical estimators, and outline a research agenda. This survey is based on two presentations given by the authors at an NCHS/CDC sponsored workshop on data privacy in May 2008.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
Main Authors: Cynthia Dwork, Adam Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Labor Dynamics Institute 2010-04-01
Online Access:https://journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/index.php/jpc/article/view/570
Description
Summary:We motivate and review the definition of differential privacy, survey some results on differentially private statistical estimators, and outline a research agenda. This survey is based on two presentations given by the authors at an NCHS/CDC sponsored workshop on data privacy in May 2008.
ISSN:2575-8527