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20182024
most citedIssues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy

89 citations · 120 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2024★ 3 cited

Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right

Gavin Leech, Simson Garfinkel, Misha Yagudin +2

We explore the AI2050 "hard problems" that block the promise of AI and cause AI risks: (1) developing general capabilities of the systems; (2) assuring the performance of AI system…

stat.AP2023★ 1 cited

A Simulated Reconstruction and Reidentification Attack on the 2010 U.S. Census

John M. Abowd, Tamara Adams, Robert Ashmead +12

We show that individual, confidential microdata records from the 2010 U.S. Census of Population and Housing can be accurately reconstructed from the published tabular summaries. Ni…

cs.CR2022

Sharpening Your Tools: Updating bulk_extractor for the 2020s

Simson Garfinkel, Jonathan Stewart

Bulk_extractor is a high-performance digital forensics tool written in C++. Between 2018 and 2022 we updated the program from C++98 to C++17, performed a complete code refactoring,…

cs.CR2021★ 4 cited

An Uncertainty Principle is a Price of Privacy-Preserving Microdata

John Abowd, Robert Ashmead, Ryan Cumings-Menon +7

Privacy-protected microdata are often the desired output of a differentially private algorithm since microdata is familiar and convenient for downstream users. However, there is a…

cs.CR2020★ 16 cited

Randomness Concerns When Deploying Differential Privacy

Simson L. Garfinkel, Philip Leclerc

The U.S. Census Bureau is using differential privacy (DP) to protect confidential respondent data collected for the 2020 Decennial Census of Population & Housing. The Census Bureau…

cs.OS2020★ 7 cited

A File System For Write-Once Media

Simson L. Garfinkel, J. Spencer Love

A file system standard for use with write-once media such as digital compact disks is proposed. The file system is designed to work with any operating system and a variety of physi…

cs.CR2018★ 89 cited

Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy

Simson L. Garfinkel, John M. Abowd, Sarah Powazek

When differential privacy was created more than a decade ago, the motivating example was statistics published by an official statistics agency. In attempting to transition differen…