Workshop on Data Surveillance at Harvard on June 3rd

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Simson Garfinkel <simsong () acm org>
Date: May 18, 2006 8:16:23 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Workshop on Data Surveillance at Harvard on June 3rd

Dave,

Please share this with your Interesting-People list. And come if you  
can!  We're especially interested in having outsiders...


Title: Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection
Date: Saturday June 3, 2006
Time: 8:30 am - 6:00pm (breakfast and lunch will be served)
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Harvard University's Center for Research on Computation and  
Society

URL:  http://www.crcs.deas.harvard.edu/workshop

(Open to the press and the general public)


Although there has been significant public attention to the civil  
liberties issues of data surveillance over the past few years, there  
has been little discussion of the actual techniques that could be  
employed in any but the most restricted settings. Likewise, there has  
been little discussion of methods and technologies for conducting  
data surveillance while respecting privacy and preserving civil  
liberties.

Our keynote speaker will be:

	Bob Popp, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Aptima, Inc., and  
formerly Deputy of the Information Awareness Office and Total  
Information Awareness (TIA) program, Defense Advanced Research  
Projects Agency (DARPA).


His talk will be on "A Vision for Countering Terrorism Through  
Information and Privacy Protection Technologies,"

Other featured speakers include:

Morning Sessions

-- Kenneth Mandl, MD, M.P.H., Harvard Medical School Center for  
Biomedical Informatics and the Children's Hospital Informatics  
Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology  
--- "Real Time Automated Disease Surveillance: Opportunities and  
Challenges."

-- Jeff Ubois, Internet Archive --- "Web Logs, Privacy, and Data  
Surveillance."

-- Lew Oleinick, Privacy Technology Advisor for the Defense Logistics  
Agency. --- "The Federal Interagency RFID Working Group."

-- Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for International  
Data Privacy; Associate Professor of Computer Science, Technology and  
Policy, Carnegie Mellon University --- "What Homeland Security Can  
Learn From the Homeless: The P3Tracker System."

Afternoon Sessions

-- Philippe Golle, Ph.D., Palo Alto Research Center. --- "Self- 
Enforcing Privacy"

-- Rafail Ostrovsky, Ph.D., Director, Center for Information and  
Computation Security; Professor, Computer Science Department,  
University of California, Los Angeles --- "Private Searching on  
Streaming Data."

-- Johannes Gehrke, Ph.D., Associate Director, Cornell Theory Center;  
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Cornell  
University --- "Data Privacy and Background Knowledge."

-- Brad Malin, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University --- "Fraud  
Detection; DNA Data Privacy, and De-identification,"

-- John Bliss, J.D., Privacy Strategist, Entity Analytic Solutions,  
IBM Software Group

-- Rebecca Wright, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Privacy,  
Obligations, and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment  
(PORTIA) project; Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of  
Technology. --- "Progress on the PORTIA Project in Privacy-Preserving  
Data Mining."

Closing Speaker:

James Bamford, J.D., Author, The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets


Are you interested in coming?

The workshop is free but you must register to attend.

For more information on the workshop and to register, please visit  
the conference website:

http://crcs.deas.harvard.edu/workshop/2006/


If you have any further questions, please contact me:

Simson L. Garfinkel
Postdoctoral Fellow and Conference Program Chair
617-876-6111
simsong () acm org





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