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Nov 2023
54m 48s

How Can Algorithms Help to Protect our P...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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In this terms Strachey lecture, Professor Monika Henzinger gives an introduction to differential privacy with an emphasis on differential private algorithms that can handle changing input data. Decisions are increasingly automated using rules that were learnt from personal data. Thus, it is important to guarantee that the privacy of the data is protected dur ... Show More
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