Will New Privacy Changes Protect Census Data or Make Things Worse? – The Markup
The U.S. Census Bureau is undertaking a privacy overhaul. It’s not going well
Hasnain says:
““Traditional statistical disclosure limitation methods, like those used in the 2010 census, cannot defend against modern challenges posed by enormous cloud computing capacity and sophisticated software libraries,” John Abowd, the bureau’s chief scientist, wrote in a declaration to the court. And expanding upon practices like swapping to the degree necessary to ensure privacy would “render the resulting data unusable for most data users.””
Posted on 2021-05-24T04:48:08+0000