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2025 OpenDP Community Meeting

On September 19, 2025

We are very excited to announce that the 2025 OpenDP Community Meeting will be held on September 19, 2025 and co-located with the Eyes-Off Data Summit (September 17-18, 2025) in Dublin, Ireland! Both events will be held at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre….

Latest News

  • Announcing OpenDP Library 0.13 and DP Wizard
    You’ll find new features in the 0.13 release and an update for DP Wizard in the details below. The OpenDP library and DP Wizard are improved with your feedback and contributions, so please check out these tools and let us know what you think via our slack channel or emailing us directly at info@opendp.org!…
  • Reflections from the Differential Privacy Beyond Algorithms Workshop
    The Differential Privacy Beyond Algorithms Workshop took place at the OpenDP Community Meeting with the goal to bring together participants thinking about aspects of DP deployments beyond algorithms and technical tools. Read the full recap in the blog and get involved in the community!…
  • The UNHCR uses Differential Privacy for their Microdata Library
    The UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, reached out to OpenDP looking to hire a consultant for 6 months to test the OpenDP libraries with their microdata. Read more about the project and challenges due to the particular structure of humanitarian data and how Nitin Kohli (UC Berkeley) found success experimenting with a new approach of using existing OpenDP libraries….
  • Q&A with Simson Garfinkel, author of upcoming book Differential Privacy
    We are excited to spotlight the work of Simson Garfinkel and announce his upcoming book, Differential Privacy! Simson researches and writes at the intersection of AI, privacy, and digital forensics….
  • Continuing the Conversation: Mayana Pereira’s presentation and tutorial on Enhancing Open Data for Social Good
    In this post, we will show a simple tutorial describing the process of adding differential privacy to the United States Broadband Usage Percentages Dataset. The tutorial will go through all steps of a data release project, from defining all data aggregations and computations in a non-private setting and identifying the points in the pipeline where data transformations, such as clamping, are necessary, all the way to implementing the data pipeline with the appropriate differential privacy mechanism using OpenDP….