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329 Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial

Ars Technica
Vittoria Elliott, wired.com @ Ars Technica · 10/29/2025 09:00 EDT

Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial

"Differential privacy" algorithm prevents statistical data from being tied to individuals.

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