Dwork, McSherry, Nissim and Smith: calibrating noise to sensitivity

What changed

A precise record-level privacy criterion linked to a generic noise-calibration mechanism.

Scientific scope

Four-author TCC 2006 paper; not all later composition, accounting, implementations or deployments.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the TCC 2006 four-author paper. It does not collapse earlier privacy work or later differential-privacy composition, accounting and deployment results into this one contribution.

Contributors

• Cynthia Dwork · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Frank McSherry · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Kobbi Nissim · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Adam Smith · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Microsoft Research: Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis
• Dwork, McSherry, Nissim and Smith, Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity

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