@inproceedings{anddwork2005toward,
author = { and Dwork, Cynthia and McSherry, Frank and Smith, Adam and Wee, Hoeteck},
title = {Toward Privacy in Public Databases},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
booktitle = {Second Theory of Cryptography Conference, (TCC 2005)},
year = {2005},
month = {February},
abstract = {We initiate a theoretical study of the census problem. Informally, in a census individual respondents give private information to a trusted party (the census bureau), who publishes a sanitized version of the data. There are two fundamentally conflicting requirements: privacy for the respondents and utility of the sanitized data. Unlike in the study of secure function evaluation, in which privacy is preserved to the extent possible given a specific functionality goal, in the census problem privacy is paramount; intuitively, things that cannot be learned “safely” should not be learned at all.
An important contribution of this work is a definition of privacy (and privacy compromise) for statistical databases, together with a method for describing and comparing the privacy offered by specific sanitization techniques. We obtain several privacy results using two different sanitization techniques, and then show how to combine them via cross training. We also obtain two utility results involving clustering.},
publisher = {Springer Verlag},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/toward-privacy-in-public-databases/},
pages = {363-385},
volume = {3378},
edition = {Second Theory of Cryptography Conference, (TCC 2005)},
}