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1. polski+t7[view] [source] 2019-07-24 11:13:49
>>zoobab+(OP)
Would differential privacy fix this problem? I heard that new US census will use it.
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2. cschmi+BC[view] [source] 2019-07-24 15:00:03
>>polski+t7
At ICML 2019 there was a good keynote by the chief scientist of the Census Bureau. The 2010 census was before a good understanding of differential privacy, so it wasn't really done correctly. The census bureau actually went back and bought a bunch of commercially available data, and deanonymized ~70% of the individuals in the US (if I remember correctly). So they wanted to do it better this time, and they seem to be taking the state of the art into account. It was much more impressive than I was expecting, actually.

https://icml.cc/Conferences/2019/ScheduleMultitrack?event=43... there is a video link on this page

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