Erica Groshen, the ILR School’s senior economics adviser and the former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, served as co-editor of a special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review,
and co-editors Rubin Gong and Salil Vadhan contribute an introductory essay explaining that while the census data is necessary for a wide-range of entities, privacy protection is required by law, but is also becoming more difficult to achieve.
As a result, the U.S. Census Bureau has developed a formal privacy protection system. In her contribution to the issue, Groshen and coauthor Daniel Goroff highlight ‘both what is new as well as what seems new but is actually little changed.”
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Julie Greco is a communications specialist in the ILR School.
