Privacy

Secure Imprecision: Professor Andreas Haeberlen speaks on the importance of Differential Privacy

By Ebonee Johnson October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This article is one of a cybersecurity-focused series. Last year during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, testing and contact tracing failed to quell the spread. Many circumstances — including a decades-old underfunding of state health departments, and slow workforce build – have contributed to this outcome.   However, according to Department of Computer and Information Read more

By Ally Moraschi, ago

Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy

Large, diverse datasets hold tremendous promise, if only we can derive statistical insights from them. But often, these datasets are siloed and withheld, because of privacy concerns. Differential privacy can mitigate these concerns — it provides a strong, attractive privacy guarantee that protects data owners from risks associated disclosure of Read more

By Zack Ives, ago