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Differential Privacy Press Kit
The U.S. Census Bureau is enhancing and strengthening how we protect people’s privacy when they respond to surveys and censuses.
The Census Bureau is modernizing privacy protections so we can defend against new threats, not just now, but into the future using a mathematical framework called “differential privacy”.
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Fact Sheet
Protecting the Confidentiality of 2020 Census Redistricting Data
By law, we must ensure that we don’t release information that could identify your information in the statistics we publish.
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Comparing Differential Privacy With Older Disclosure Avoidance Methods
Differential privacy, first developed in 2006, is a framework for measuring the precise disclosure risk associated with each release of confidential data.
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