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the focus of the project seems not to be on differential privacy as used by private companies but by scientists. in many cases you can't (US Census, medical rec
by currymj 6y ago
the focus of the project seems not to be on differential privacy as used by private companies but by scientists. in many cases you can't (US Census, medical records) or wouldn't want to (public health research) stop collecting the data. and allowing privacy-preserving statistical queries from outside researchers has the potential to be very useful.
- Sephr 6y ago> allowing privacy-preserving statistical queries from outside researchers has the potential to be very useful This depends on how many researchers and queries per researcher that you want to allow. The privacy budget eventually runs out, so there are definitely drawbacks that prevent effective use of this data across enough outside researchers.