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Hands-On Differential Privacy

Errata for Hands-On Differential Privacy

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PDF Page 58
4th paragraph

If this [bounded differential privacy] restriction is in place, then the number of edits is equivalent to two times the number of additions and removals, because each edit constitutes one addition and one removal.
Should this not be "the number of additions and removals is equivalent to two times the number of edits, because ..." ($d_{sym} = 2 * d_{Ham}$)?

Anonymous  Nov 04, 2025 
PDF Page 59
Last paragraph

The paragraph starts "Doing a similar analysis on the output of the transformation, ...", however, there is no mention of an analysis on the input of the transformation, which I assume the word "similar" is referring to. Does this phrase refer to the definition of the absolute distance metric in p. 55, or is there a missing paragraph here?

Anonymous  Nov 03, 2025