Differential Privacy | Harvard University Privacy Tools Project

Differential Privacy

A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection

What is Differential Privacy?

Yesterday at the WWDC keynote, Apple announced a series of new security and privacy features, including one feature that’s drawn a bit of attention — and confusion. Specifically, Apple …

Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata | TechCrunch

More proof, if proof were needed, of the privacy-stripping power of metadata. A multi-year crowdsourced study, conducted by Stanford scientists and published this week, underlines how much information can be inferred from basic phone logs cross-referenced with other public datasets.

Opinion | It’s Time to Panic About Privacy (Published 2019)

We claim to want it, companies claim to provide it, but we all just accept that, well, you have no privacy online.

Measuring the Privacy Experience

How do you know that a product respects your privacy – other than by wading through the fine print? We’ve created a framework to measure the way people actually experience privacy in tech products.

Privacy is a collective concern

When we tell companies about ourselves, we give away details about others, too.

Differential Privacy

In 1977 Dalenius articulated a desideratum for statistical databases: nothing about an individual should be learnable from the database that cannot be learned without access to the database. We give a general impossibility result showing that a formalization of Dalenius’ goal along the lines of semantic security cannot be achieved. Contrary to intuition, a variant […]

6 really practical ways to protect your privacy online - Amnesty International

216K subscribers in the privacytoolsIO community. As announced on July 27th, and on Sept 14th, 2021, The Team Formerly Known As PrivacyTools.io – the…

The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

Privacy is a commons | TechCrunch

"The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society," quoth Wikipedia, "held in common, not owned privately." We

Unwillingness to pay for privacy: A field experiment

We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants bought at most one DVD from one of two competing online stores. One store consistently required more sensitive personal data than the other, but otherwise the stores were identical. In one treatment, DVDs were one Euro cheaper at the store requesting more personal information, and almost all buyers chose the cheaper store. Surprisingly, in the second treatment when prices were identical, participants bought from both shops equally often.

A Model for addressing privacy on ATproto

A proposal on how we can offer private data

Privacy Principles

Privacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both.

Privacy Principles

Privacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both.

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM

Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research