The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (Dwork et al.)

Details

Photo

—

Name

—

Field

Computer science / privacy

Year

2006–2014 line of work

Core idea

You can share useful stats about individuals while mathematically bounding how much any one person’s data is exposed.

Why it stuck

Made me less cynical about privacy—like there’s actually math between "track everything" and "know nothing."

Read where

Weekend deep dive at a Lower East Side coffee shop, laptop dying, outlets all taken.