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by brian_spiering 2010 days ago
Differential privacy is the field of study for sharing sensitive data in a way that allows analysis while retaining some guarantees of privacy.
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Agreed, Differential Privacy is the name for this problem.

Quick summary of important results: You will always leak a small amount of information. But it is possible to bound this leak to whatever level you consider "acceptable." The trade-off is statistical validity of the results (the usual approach adds "noise" to the data and/or analysis).