DIMACS Working Group on Challenges for Cryptographers in Health Data Privacy

June 30, 2004
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Benny Pinkas, HP Labs, benny.pinkas at hp.com

Kobbi Nissim, Microsoft Research, kobbi at microsoft.com

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

 8:15 -  8:50 Registration and Breakfast

 8:50 -  9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

 9:00         Topics related to secure computation 
              Benny Pinkas, HP Labs

 9:00 -  9:30 A short introduction to secure computation (presentation) 

 9:30 - 10:30 Discussion: 
              (1) Identifying functions of interest for healthcare applications
              (2) Modeling the adversary

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00         Query auditing

11:00 - 11:15 Online query auditing (short presentation) 
              Kobbi Nissim, Microsoft Research

11:15 - 11:30 Offline query auditing (short presentation)
              Tomas Sander and Bill Horne, HP Labs 

11:30 - 12:15 Discussion 

12:15 -  1:30 Lunch

 1:30         Topics related to data sanitization

 1:30 -  2:00 A short introduction to data sanitization (presentation) 
              Larry Cox, CDC

 2:00 -  3:00 Discussion:
              (1) Definitions of a privacy breach
              (2) Modeling the adversary

 3:30 -  4:00 Break

 4:00         Discussion: Should we explore the relation of the following 
              technologies to privacy of health care data?
              (1) DRM (Digital Rights Management)
              (2) Private Inference Control
              (3) Association rule hiding

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