Traditionally, companies have relied upon data masking, sometimes called de-identification, to protect data privacy. The basic idea is to remove all personally identifiable information (PII) from each ...

The Census Bureau is rolling out a new algorithm intended to protect respondents’ privacy — but experts warn the change will significantly miscount minority communities and rural areas. Specifically, ...

Differential privacy has become the gold standard for rigorous privacy guarantees. This has spurred the development of many differentially-private mechanisms for various types of queries. In ...

Privacy is fragile indeed. Organizations gather private and sensitive data with gusto but have done a poor job guarding it against those who would seek to purloin it ...

When the U.S. Census Bureau releases the first local results with demographic breakdowns from the 2020 decennial census on Thursday, the numbers will reflect a new method for protecting the details of ...

image: MIT researchers created a new data privacy metric, Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) Privacy, and built an algorithm based on this metric that can ...

Google LLC’s two major research units have made a significant advance in the area of large language model privacy with the introduction of a new model called VaultGemma, the world’s most powerful ...

(TNS) — The Census Bureau says it has improved its ability to give accurate data while protecting the privacy of its 2020 questionnaire responses, but experts worry they won’t be able to test the ...