Correspondences between Privacy and Nondiscrimination: Why They Should Be Studied Together

Understand

Privacy and nondiscrimination are related but different.

• We make this observation precise in two ways.
• First, we show that both privacy and nondiscrimination have two versions, a causal version and a statical associative version, with each version corresponding to a competing view of the proper goal of privacy or nondiscrimination.
• Second, for each version, we show that a difference between the privacy edition of the version and the nondiscrimination edition of the version is related to the difference between Bayesian probabilities and frequentist probabilities.