When the U.S. Census Bureau releases the first local results with demographic breakdowns from the 2020 decennial census on Thursday, the numbers will reflect a new method for protecting the details of ...

NIST announced the new guidelines on differential privacy guarantees and stated on its website that its goal is to help data-centric organizations strike a balance between privacy and accuracy.

Once a decade, the U.S. Census Bureau undertakes the massive challenge of counting every single person in the nation. We’re all asked to share sensitive information about ourselves—such as race, sex, ...

Traditionally, companies have relied upon data masking, sometimes called de-identification, to protect data privacy. The basic idea is to remove all personally identifiable information (PII) from each ...

The Census Bureau is rolling out a new algorithm intended to protect respondents’ privacy — but experts warn the change will significantly miscount minority communities and rural areas. Specifically, ...

(TNS) — The Census Bureau says it has improved its ability to give accurate data while protecting the privacy of its 2020 questionnaire responses, but experts worry they won’t be able to test the ...

Privacy-protecting databases use a number of techniques to guard data. The complexity of these techniques has evolved as threats to data privacy have risen ...