John M. Abowd and Lars Vilhuber

In the spring issue of CHANCE, Stephen Fienberg provided background and guidance on the interaction between privacy, confidentiality, disclosure, and harm. In this month’s column, we will continue down that path, describing in more detail the benefits of providing data to public agencies and how public agencies navigate the narrow path between too much information disclosure on one hand and the release of useful information on the other.

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