Tore Dalenius, were impossible, it identified new techniques for limiting the increased privacy risk resulting from inclusion of private data in a statistical database. This makes it possible in many cases to provide very accurate statistics from the database while still ensuring high levels of privacy. Some further reading Statistical and Scientific Database Management (SSDBM) An important series of conferences in this field Some key papers in this field: - Dorothy E. Denning, Secure statistical databases with random sample queries, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 5, Issue 3 (September 1980), Pages: 291 - 315 - Wiebren de Jonge, Compromising statistical databases responding to queries about means, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Volume 8, Issue 1 (March 1983), Pages: 60 - 80 - Dorothy E. Denning, Jan Schlörer, A fast procedure for finding a tracker in a statistical database, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 1980) . Pages: 88 - 102 A. Shoshani, “Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and some Solutions,” in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1982, pp. 208–222. References