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Differential Privacy: A Primer

Abhishek Tiwari

Differential Privacy (DP) is a mathematical framework that protects individual privacy in data analysis while allowing useful insights to be extracted. It works by adding carefully calibrated noise to data or query results, ensuring that including or excluding any single individual's data doesn't significantly change the analysis outcomes.

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Managing Differential Privacy in Large Scale Systems

Abhishek Tiwari

The promise of differential privacy is compelling. It offers a rigorous, provable guarantee of individual privacy, even in the face of arbitrary background knowledge. Rather than relying on anonymization techniques that can often be defeated, differential privacy works by injecting carefully calibrated noise into computations. This allows aggregate statistics and insights to be extracted from data while masking the contributions of any single individual.

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