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Privacy Integrated Queries: An Extensible Platform for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis.

The article presents a data analysis platform which is designed to guarantee a screen of privacy between the data being analyzed and the analysis results. It is named Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ), and gives access to records through a declarative language similar to SQL, working with C# code. P...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 9; pp. 89 - 98
Main Author: McSherry, Frank
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2010
Subjects:
Confidential records
Data analysis
Query languages (Computer science)
Application software
Privacy
Information resources management
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents a data analysis platform which is designed to guarantee a screen of privacy between the data being analyzed and the analysis results. It is named Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ), and gives access to records through a declarative language similar to SQL, working with C# code. PINQ is described as providing a formal and unconditional guarantee of differential privacy when implemented correctly, and its performance in this regard is not dependent on any privacy-related expertise on the part of the data analysts.