Evaluating bias and noise induced by the US Census Bureau's privacy protection methods

CT Kenny, C McCartan, S Kuriwaki, T Simko… - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
The US Census Bureau faces a difficult trade-off between the accuracy of Census statistics
and the protection of individual information. We conduct an independent evaluation of bias …

Differential privacy: general inferential limits via intervals of measures

J Bailie, R Gong - International Symposium on Imprecise …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical standard for assessing the privacy provided by a
data-release mechanism. We provide formulations of pure $\epsilon $-differential privacy …

Synthetic Census Data Generation via Multidimensional Multiset Sum

C Dwork, K Greenewald, M Raghavan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.10095, 2024 - arxiv.org
The US Decennial Census provides valuable data for both research and policy purposes.
Census data are subject to a variety of disclosure avoidance techniques prior to release in …

General Inferential Limits Under Differential and Pufferfish Privacy

J Bailie, R Gong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.15491, 2024 - arxiv.org
Differential privacy (DP) is a class of mathematical standards for assessing the privacy
provided by a data-release mechanism. This work concerns two important flavors of DP that …