Synthetic Data- A Real Solution To The Privacy Problem

Brian Tarran, editor of Significance (www.significancemagazine.com), interviews James Tucker, head of the Quality Centre and Methodology Advisory Service at the Office for National Statistics, about respondent confidentiality, and data privacy and protection. They discuss new threats to privacy such as linkage attacks, and how the creation and release of synthetic data sets can help protect respondents while still supporting evidence-based decision making.

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