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- Title
Comment to Mulalidhar and Domingo-Ferrer (2023) – Legacy Statistical Disclosure Limitation Techniques Were Not An Option for the 2020 US Census of Population And Housing.
- Authors
Garfinkel, Simson
- Abstract
The Article Database Reconstruction is Not So Easy and Is Different from Reidentification, by Krish Muralidhar and Josep Domingo-Ferrer, is an extended attack on the decision of the U.S. Census Bureau to turn its back on legacy statistical disclosure limitation techniques and instead use a bespoke algorithm based on differential privacy to protect the published data products of the Census Bureau's 2020 Census of Population and Housing (henceforth referred to as the 2020 Census). This response explains why differential privacy was the only realistic choice for protecting sensitive data collected for the 2020 Census. However, differential privacy has a social cost: it requires that practitioners admit that there is inherently a trade-off between the utility of published official statistics and the privacy loss of those whose data are collected under a pledge of confidentiality.
- Subjects
U.S. Census Bureau; EXTERNALITIES; DATABASES; HOUSING; CENSUS; PRIVACY
- Publication
Journal of Official Statistics (JOS), 2023, Vol 39, Issue 3, p399
- ISSN
0282-423X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2478/jos-2023-0018