Theory Seminar - Differential Privacy in Theory and Practice, Abie Flaxman
Paul G. Allen School via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Acknowledgement and Disclosures
Outline
2010 Census: High-level Database Schema
Unique feature of this data 1: Participation is mandatory
Unique feature of this data 2: Title 13.9.2 of US Code requires confidentiality
What is Differential Privacy? (continued)
What is a database?
Concrete example: population counts by county
Convex Optimization to Make Noise Plausible
For first time this decade, a dip in King County's white population, census data shows
Why might e-DP in 2020 Census be a good thing? There is an opportunity to democratize tradeoff decision between privacy and accuracy
Taught by
Paul G. Allen School