[mattb314]

If you're new to differential privacy and looking for an introduction, I highly recommend the Dwork and Roth book, especially the first three chapters: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf

Frank McSherry also has some good resources if you enjoy his writing style: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2016...

In particular, I think it's important to keep in mind that differential privacy is as much focused on establishing a framework for measuring information leakage as it is coming up with clever algorithms to preserve privacy (although there are a lot of clever algorithms). I think of it as more analogous to big-O notation (a way of measuring) than to dynamic programming (an implementation technique).

[ruuda]

I found the 6-part series at https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-awesomene... a very good introduction as well.

[m463]

I think the primary focus of differential privacy is that "the spice must flow". They need to keep collecting and using this data.

[infogulch]

I guess. It's more like: figure out how to measure how much spice is flowing. The resulting knowledge will be a new tool: powerful and morally indifferent, as all tools. You choose how to use it.