In the Jan/Feb '26 edition of S&P, read about a critical analysis of 21 large-scale differential privacy (DP) deployments by top-tier companies and institutions over the past 10 years. Authors characterize the data utility & privacy budgets of such DP deployments, examine commonly-found issues across “DP in practice” versus theoretical expectations of DP ideal usage, and discuss how alternatives adjacent-to-DP can be used alongside DP to align intention with technique utility maximization.
Read on and more here at S&P: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/sp/2026/01
and be on the look out for the Mar/April '26 S&P soon!


