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Fool's Gold: An Illustrated Critique Of Differential Privacy, Jane Bambauer, Krishnamurty Muralidhar, Rathindra Sarathy
Fool's Gold: An Illustrated Critique Of Differential Privacy, Jane Bambauer, Krishnamurty Muralidhar, Rathindra Sarathy
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Differential privacy has taken the privacy community by storm. Computer scientists developed this technique to allow researchers to submit queries to databases without being able to glean sensitive information about the individuals described in the data. Legal scholars champion differential privacy as a practical solution to the competing interests in research and confidentiality, and policymakers are poised to adopt it as the gold standard for data privacy. It would be a disastrous mistake. This Article provides an illustrated guide to the virtues and pitfalls of differential privacy. While the technique is suitable for a narrow set of research uses, the …