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Cynthia Dwork: I’m in the Database, but Nobody Knows

September 28th, 2010

A statistical database provides statistical information about a population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the database. A thriving research effort has produced high-quality differentially private solutions for a wide range of data analysis tasks.

In this talk, Cynthia Dwork—a theoretical computer scientist and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research—gives a feel for the broad spectrum of things that can be done by accessing information through a privacy-preserving programming interface, and touches on some privacy problems arising in the context of behavioral targeting.

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