Toward practicing privacy
Cynthia Dwork, Rebecca Livingston Pottenger · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2012
Private data analysis-the useful analysis of confidential data-requires a rigorous and practicable definition of privacy. Differential privacy, an emerging standard, is the subject of intensive investigation in several diverse research communities. We review the definition, explain its motivation, and discuss some of the challenges to bringing this concept to practice.