Paper on reconstruction attacks against the 2010 US census wins privacy research award
thegautamkamath · x · 2026-07-24
A paper on reconstruction attacks against the 2010 US census was highlighted as the winner.
The accompanying slide shows the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, which recognizes work that makes an outstanding contribution to the theory, design, implementation, or deployment of PETs. It also notes that any privacy paper published in the last two years was eligible, with Awais Rashid and Florian Kerschbaum listed as chairs.
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