Protecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)

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REFERENCES
Differential Privacy in the Wild: 

Harvard University Privacy Tools Project: 

Simons Institute Workshop Video Recordings and Articles Archive: 

Cynthia Dwork (key inventor of Differential Privacy), giving a great intro talk about differential privacy: 

Shiva P Kasiviswanathan and Adam Smith. On the semantics of differential privacy: A Bayesian formulation. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 6(1):1–16, 2014.

Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan and Adam Smith. On the ‘semantics’ of differential privacy: A Bayesian formulation. 2015. 

Daniel Kifer and Ashwin Machanavajjhala. A rigorous and customizable framework for privacy. In ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 2012.

Daniel Kifer and Ashwin Machanavajjhala. Pufferfish: A framework for mathematical privacy definitions. ACM Trans. Database Syst., 39(1):3, 2014.


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