Before Recitation
This recitation does not relate to the previous
lecture! It relates to your design project, and is a break from some
of the more in-depth technical papers. We are not expecting
differential privacy to be part of your design project. You should not
run out and make changes to your design in response to this
reading.
Read Differential Privacy and the 2020 US Census by Simson Garfinkel. This is a case-study from the College of Computing.
Question for Recitation: Before you come to this recitation, you'll turn in a brief answer to the following questions (really—we don't need more than a sentence or so for each question). Your TA will be in touch about exactly how to turn that in. Your answers to these questions should be in your own words, not direct quotations from the paper.
- The paper states that "there is a strict trade-off between data
quality and confidentiality protection: increasing one decreases the
other."
- Who is impacted by this trade-off?
- As a system designer, how would you go about making decisions about this trade-off?
During Recitation
We expect you to be engaged and participate in recitation, and there are many ways to do that! Check out our participation FAQ for more information.