Organizer(s):

John Abowd, Cornell University

René Bastón, Columbia University

Tal Rabin, IBM

Adam Smith, Boston University

Salil Vadhan, Harvard University

Rebecca Wright, DIMACS

Description

This workshop will bring together computer scientists, legal scholars, social scientists, and consumers of data to understand the extent to which privacy currently limits the sharing of data. Discussions will include but not be limited to research data and will seek to develop standards and best practices that enable new information flows in domains ranging from healthcare to energy. The workshop will also address issues of fairness of data-driven systems and processes, and their connections to privacy. These topics present central challenges for the flow of data within and between government, commercial, and academic institutions data that are crucial to address science, engineering, and policy challenges.

The workshop will address five major themes:

• Legal perspectives on privacy and the sharing of research data
• Private data analysis and de-anonymization
• Algorithmic fairness, disparate impact, and the ethics of data-based policies
• Government systems and policies for managing research data (including discoverability)
• Cryptographic tools for sharing and processing secured data.

Related to each theme, there will be at least one tutorial aimed at entire workshop audience. These tutorials will summarize the state of the artin both research and practicerelated to that theme. There will also be one or more sessions on recent research related to each theme. The presentations in these sessions will explain the main ideas in a language accessible to a broad audience, but will include discussion aimed at specialists.

Program

Monday, October 23, 2017

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Call For Participation

Participation is open to all, subject to space limitations. Please register if you'd like to attend.

Talks are mostly by invitation, but we will also consider submissions for potential talks. Please send the organizers an e-mail (to rebecca.wright at dimacs.rutgers.edu) if you'd like to be invited to speak with a description (no more than one page) of your planned topic, before October 6, 2017.

Slides from presentations

Full video playlist

Sponsored by Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub and DIMACS, in association with the Big Data Initiative on Privacy and Security.

Registration for this event is closed.