New method enables privacy-preserving race/ethnicity fairness measurement

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-06-29 04:00

A new paper introduces Privacy-Preserving Probabilistic Race/Ethnicity Estimation (PPRE), a method designed to enable fairness measurements concerning race and ethnicity for LinkedIn members in the U.S. while maintaining privacy. PPRE integrates secure two-party computation, differential privacy, and additive homomorphic encryption with two distinct demographic signal sources. These sources include the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding estimator and a survey set of self-reported demographics, aiming to provide robust fairness metrics for candidate and viewer-side evaluations. The framework is presented as transferable for other institutions looking to build similar privacy-preserving measurement infrastructure. AI

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arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Osonde A. Osoba, Yuzi He, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, Varun Mithal, Sakshi Jain, Natesh S. Pillai · 2026-06-29 04:00

Productionized Fairness Measurement Under Privacy Constraints

arXiv:2606.27558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness measurements in the form of disaggregated evaluations often rely on demographic signals that are legally constrained or culturally sensitive. Race and ethnicity signals are among the more difficult signals to curate and use…