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 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen@leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]