What If Alice Wants Her Story Told?

ePrint Report: What If Alice Wants Her Story Told?

Anindya Bhandari, Allison Bishop

In this paper, we pose the problem of defining technical privacy guarantees for anonymizing stories. This is a challenge that arises in practice in contexts like journalism and memoir writing, and can be crucial in determining whether a story gets told and how effectively it is presented. While recent decades have seen leaps and bounds in the development of approaches like differential privacy for numerical and categorical …

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