Database Reconstruction Is Not So Easy and Is Different from Reidentification. (arXiv:2301.10213v1 [cs.CR])

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10213

In recent years, it has been claimed that releasing accurate statistical
information on a database is likely to allow its complete reconstruction.
Differential privacy has been suggested as the appropriate methodology to
prevent these attacks. These claims have recently been taken very seriously by
the U.S. Census Bureau and led them to adopt differential privacy for releasing
U.S. Census data. This in turn has caused consternation among users of the
Census data due to the lack of accuracy of the …

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