3 papers
stat.AP2025
Toward a Principled Framework for Disclosure Avoidance
Michael B Hawes, Evan M Brassell, Anthony Caruso +16
Responsible disclosure limitation is an iterative exercise in risk assessment and mitigation. From time to time, as disclosure risks grow and evolve and as data users' needs change…
cs.CR2025
Disclosure Avoidance for the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File
Ryan Cumings-Menon, Robert Ashmead, Daniel Kifer +4
In "The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm," Abowd et al. (2022) describe the concepts and methods used by the Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) to produce f…
stat.AP2025
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…