What Is Database Privacy?

Differential privacy (English: differential privacy ) is a means of cryptography, which aims to provide a way to maximize the accuracy of data query when querying from a statistical database, while minimizing the chance of identifying its records.

Imagine a trusted institution holding sensitive personal information (such as medical records, viewing records, or email statistics) involving many people.

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Several uses of differential privacy in practice are known to date:

• US Census Bureau, showing commuting patterns.

• Google's RAPPOR is used to remotely measure statistics such as learning harmful software hijacking user settings (RAPPOR's open source implementation).

• Google, share historical traffic statistics.

• On June 13, 2016, Apple announced its intention to use differential privacy in iOS 10 to improve its smart help and suggestion technology.

• In the data mining model, some preliminary researches have been done on the actual implementation of differential privacy. ^[2]