Position: Challenges and Opportunities for Differential Privacy in the U.S. Federal Government

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16423v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:46:05 GMT
• Title: Position: Challenges and Opportunities for Differential Privacy in the U.S. Federal Government
• Authors: Amol Khanna, Adam McCormick, Andre Nguyen, Chris Aguirre, Edward Raff,
• Abstract summary: We seek to elucidate challenges and opportunities for differential privacy within the federal government setting. We highlight three significant challenges which currently restrict the use of differential privacy in the U.S. government. We provide two examples where differential privacy can enhance the capabilities of government agencies.
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• Abstract: In this article, we seek to elucidate challenges and opportunities for differential privacy within the federal government setting, as seen by a team of differential privacy researchers, privacy lawyers, and data scientists working closely with the U.S. government. After introducing differential privacy, we highlight three significant challenges which currently restrict the use of differential privacy in the U.S. government. We then provide two examples where differential privacy can enhance the capabilities of government agencies. The first example highlights how the quantitative nature of differential privacy allows policy security officers to release multiple versions of analyses with different levels of privacy. The second example, which we believe is a novel realization, indicates that differential privacy can be used to improve staffing efficiency in classified applications. We hope that this article can serve as a nontechnical resource which can help frame future action from the differential privacy community, privacy regulators, security officers, and lawmakers.

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