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Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data


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User locations

A differentially private depiction of the locations of users who entered the keyword cricket into a search engine.

Credit: Frank McSherry, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley

In 1997, when Massachusetts began making health records of state employees available to medical researchers, the government removed patients' names, addresses, and Social Security numbers.

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