How Fake Data Could Protect Real People’s Privacy

Jul 31, 2015

An article published by the Atlantic describes Deputy Director of iiD Jerry Reiter’s research program on methods for sharing data in ways that protect the confidentiality of data subjects’ identities and sensitive attributes. This work comes out of grants supported by the National Science Foundation and is associated with two iiD projects that Jerry leads.

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The Triangle Census Research Network (TCRN) is an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Duke University and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences dedicated to improving the way that federal statistical agencies collect, analyze, and disseminate data to the public. Its primary mission is to develop broadly-applicable methodologies that transform and improve data...