User-Centric Distributed Solutions for Privacy-Preserving Analytics.

The author discusses the use of cryptography in order to promote privacy-preserving analytics. Topics include the use of a web-based application using secure multi-party computation (MPC) to support the aggregation of sensitive salary data for an initiative by the City of Boston and the Boston Women...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 37 - 40
Autores principales:	Bestavros, Azer, Lapets, Andrei, Varia, Mayank
Formato:	Opinion
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Feb2017
Materias:	Cryptography Data security Data privacy Right of privacy Development of application software
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Sumario:	The author discusses the use of cryptography in order to promote privacy-preserving analytics. Topics include the use of a web-based application using secure multi-party computation (MPC) to support the aggregation of sensitive salary data for an initiative by the City of Boston and the Boston Women's Workforce Council (BWWC), and the use of MPC to support data-driven analysis and policymaking.