A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone ...

Prominent demographers are asking the U.S. Census Bureau to abandon a controversial method for protecting survey and census participants’ confidentiality, saying it is jeopardizing the usability of ...

Being able to share information about a group of people without compromising any individual person’s privacy kinda sounds like a form of wizardry. But it’s not. It’s just math. I say “just” not to ...

NIST announced the new guidelines on differential privacy guarantees and stated on its website that its goal is to help data-centric organizations strike a balance between privacy and accuracy.

FILE - Then-Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Santos is ...

The Census Bureau is rolling out a new algorithm intended to protect respondents’ privacy — but experts warn the change will significantly miscount minority communities and rural areas. Specifically, ...

When the U.S. Census Bureau releases the first local results with demographic breakdowns from the 2020 decennial census on Thursday, the numbers will reflect a new method for protecting the details of ...

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Privacy-protecting databases use a number of techniques to guard data. The complexity of these techniques has evolved as threats to data privacy have risen ...

FILE - This Sunday, April 5, 2020, file photo, shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. A U.S. Census Bureau director couldn't be fired without cause and ...