Federal statistics agencies strive to release data products that are informative for many purposes, yet also protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects’ identities and sensitive attributes. This article reviews the role that differential privacy, a disclosure risk criterion...

Data stewards seeking to provide access to large-scale social science data face a difficult challenge. They have to share data in ways that protect privacy and confidentiality, are informative for many analyses and purposes, and are relatively straightforward to use by data analysts. We present...