A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets (Todd Feathers/The Markup)

Todd Feathers / The Markup:
A look at the fight over using differential privacy techniques in the US Census, which anonymizes datasets but some argue lowers the quality of the datasets  —  Several years ago, as the U.S. Census Bureau began to prepare for its 2020 count, it was confronted with an existential problem.