Differential privacy (DP) provides a way to quantify privacy. A privacy budget quantitatively measures by how much the risk to an individual’s privacy may increase due to the inclusion of certain data. The higher the value, the less privacy protection is provided. This paper by Jun Tang, Aleksandra Korolova, Xiaolong Bai, Xueqiang Wang, and Xiaofeng Wang identifies the components …
Good help is hard to find. The Internet is full of advice but it can be difficult to know what is good advice, and what is dangerous. This is true for advice around programming computer code as well. A group of researchers from Germany wanted to find out how much of an impact bad advice could …