Efforts a the Census Bureau to adopt differential privacy (DP) are of great interest to PAA members that use Census data products. In December 2019, CNSTAT, the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academy of Science, convened a workshop to examine the results of real-use tests and simulations to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the DP protocols. The workshop was organized by PAA members V.Joseph Hotz (Duke University) and Joseph Salvo (Demographer of the City of New York), who also serves as chair and member (respectively) of PAA's Committee on Population Statistics (COPS). Hotz and Salvo have drafted a very helpful summary of the workshop and recommendations for next steps, which they have given permission to share with, and for the benefit of, PAA Members. Read it here.
Please note, the views expressed in this summary are those of the authors, and do not represent formal positions taken by either COPS, or PAA.
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