Data Privacy and Cryptography Experts File Brief in Support of Census Bureau
Brief is filed in support of the Department of Commerce s use of differential privacy to protect the confidentiality of 2020 census data
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BERKELEY, Calif., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Twenty leading experts, in data privacy and cryptography along with lawyers from Bondurant Mixson & Elmore filed an
amicus brief in support of the Census Bureau s use of differential privacy a mathematically rigorous way of providing provably and future-proof privacy-infused statistics to protect the privacy of census respondents.
Through the lawsuit, the state of Alabama seeks to force the Census Bureau to use out-dated methods for protecting confidentiality methods which a team of Census Bureau researchers found could be easily broken by deploying modern data reconstruction techniques to published Census statistics. The experts, who include inventors of differe