In the information realm, loss of privacy
is usually
associated with failure to control
access to
information, to control the flow of information, or
to control the purposes for which information
is
employed. Differential privacy arose in a context
in which ensuring privacy is a challenge even if all
these control problems are solved: privacy-preserving
statistical analysis of data.
The problem of statistical disclosure control—
revealing accurate statistics about a set of...
Authors: Cynthia Dwork