Chapter 9 Differential Privacy and Medical Data Analysis

By Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto and Vector | Anna Goldenberg, University of Toronto

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Published: 23 Jul 2025

© 2025 Vinith M. Suriyakumar | Nicolas Papernot | Anna Goldenberg

Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss regulations that govern the privacy of medical data for a variety of countries around the world and examples of medical data privacy breaches. We discuss why differential privacy is a promising framework for the next gold standard in medical data privacy. Finally, we discuss conducting both statistical analyses and machine learning on medical data with guarantees of differential privacy.