The US Census Bureau is piloting internal data privacy technologies
Kurt Rohloff · Computing On Encrypted Data // Kurt Rohloff, Duality (Firstmark's Data Driven NYC) · Oct 22, 2019 · at 19:03
Dr. Kurt Rohloff, founder and CTO of Duality Technologies, answers an audience question regarding census data privacy at Data Driven NYC.
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“I have personally talked with the, ah, head of data innovation of the Census Bureau, and I know they, they're actually running a pilot study with, ah, a different set of technologies with internal development right now.”
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