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Google's differential privacy libraries.
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[Question] Generate differential private release of a dataset? #61

Closed sasvaritoni closed 3 years ago

sasvaritoni commented 4 years ago

Hi,

I can see the examples for different statistics queries. I am wondering if the Google DP library could be used to generate a differential private release of a dataset. I mean to transform the original dataset to an "anonymized" one. Is this planned for the future maybe?

Thanks, Toni

dasmdasm commented 3 years ago

We have no plans to build anything like that. Generating an anonymized version of a dataset is a really hard problem, and building a general-purpose solution is even harder. From a utility perspective it's almost always going to be better to do a computation in a differentially private manner rather than making a general-purpose differentially private dataset and then doing your computation on that dataset.