Summary
Organizations across government, healthcare, finance, and research need to share and analyze data to solve important problems, but current methods for protecting personal privacy while sharing data are inadequate and difficult to evaluate. Researchers and practitioners struggle to determine which privacy protection methods work best for different situations, how much privacy they actually provide, and what trade-offs exist between privacy protection and data usefulness. This creates barriers to safe data sharing that could otherwise enable medical breakthroughs, improve government services, an