Comment by dash2
21 hours ago
I don’t understand why gerrymandering would require privacy violation, or how differential privacy would stop it.
21 hours ago
I don’t understand why gerrymandering would require privacy violation, or how differential privacy would stop it.
Gerrymandering is most effective when you know exact voting patterns of each household so you can draw the lines to get the result you want. Differential privacy blurs those boundaries and provides more room for the partisan hacks to make a fatal mistake.
Sounds very unlikely in practice. Any evidence anyone actually tried to deanonymize this data for this purpose?