About the Study

Conference: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, presented May 22-25, 2022, San Francisco.

Title: Differential Privacy and Swapping: Examining De-Identication’s Impact on Minority Representation and Privacy Preservation in the U.S. Census.

Authors: Miranda Christ (Columbia University), Sarah Radway (Tufts University- formerly Columbia University), Steven M. Bellovin (Columbia University)

This research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research under award number DE-SC-0001234, a Google Faculty Grant, NSF grants CNS-1923528 and CCF-2107187, a grant from the Columbia-IBM center for Blockchain and Data Transparency, a grant from JPMorgan Chase & Co., and a grant from LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

COI: The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.