A. For the Differential Privacy paper:

  1. Briefly describe some of the challenges in applying 
  differential privacy to real-world settings.

B. For the Genomic DNA paper:

  1. This paper is written from a bioinformatics perspective. 
  Write a brief summary of the paper in the language of
  computer science. Think about data collection, aggregation and
  release, rows and columns, dimensionality, entropy, etc.

C. Additional questions:

  1. A question related to both of the papers: Suppose you 
  have a database of genotypes (SNPs) from different people's 
  DNA, and your goal is to publish aggregate statistics on some 
  subset of the genotypes. What does differential privacy tell 
  us about how big this subset can be if we want to protect the 
  identity of individuals in the DNA pool?

  2. A non-technical question: in our increasingly technological 
  world, people seem to care less about privacy with each passing 
  year. Given this, is there any point in trying to develop
  privacy-protection technologies? Briefly justify your position.