ALT This special issue invites standard research articles and briefer research notes for both the statistics and the survey methods section for the journal. Topics include but are not limited to: Development in new statistical methods of confidentiality and disclosure protection. Comparisons of competing approaches (e.g., differential privacy versus statistical disclosure control techniques). Measurement of disclosure risk. Consideration of knowledge and attitudes toward privacy and confidentiality and their impact on the data collection process. Small area estimation and disclosure protection. Compensating for measurement error induced by the disclosure protection methods. Methods of communicating confidentiality and privacy protection to sample members and effects on data collection and survey errors.