Privacy Tools team members Alexandra Wood and Stephen Chong are giving a talk on "Robot Lawyers: Automating Legal Compliance for Transferring Private Data." The talk will be on May 14th at 2:00pm at the Boston University School of Law. For more information, please visit https://www.bu.edu/law/news-events/events-calendar/?eid=209434.
Privacy Tools Principal Investigator Latanya Sweeney held a public debate with the French Secretary of State for Digital Commerce about open data and AI algorithms. This debate was televised on French national television. Sweeney consulted with French President Emmanel Macron and joined him at the College de France as he presented the Tricolor Strategy on Artificial Intelligence. This groundbreaking public announcement revealed that there will be open data in France and that all AI algorithms used by the French government for decision-making will be made public, which...
Project Member Alexandra Wood presented “Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-technical Audience” as part of the Future of Privacy Forum De-identification 201: Differential Privacy Webinar on February 15th, 2018.
Privacy Tools Program Manager Kimia Mavon has been awarded the Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti Award for Mentoring and Community Building for her role as Manager of the Center for Research on Computation and Society. Kimia has served CRCS and Privacy Tools tirelessly for four years, coordinating all our projects and events. We're so pleased to honor her contribution to Harvard!
Project members Aloni Cohen (MIT) and Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University) have been inducted into the Aircloak Hall of Fame for their successful demonstration of a privacy attack! For more information about their demonstration, and about Aircloak, please visit: https://aircloak.com/compliance/attack-challenge/. Read more about Aloni Cohen and Kobbi Nissim Inducted into Aircloak Hall of Fame
Privacy Tools Principal Investigator Latanya Sweeney has received a Lasting Research Award from the 8th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2018). Congratulations, Latanya!
Privacy Tools Project members Alexandra Wood and James Honaker presented at the Boston College Law Program Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They spoke on the subject of "Turning Challenge into Opportunity: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Privacy and Security." For more informaiton, please visit ...
Privacy Tools Project member Alexandra Wood presented on "Bridging Privacy Definitions: Differential Privacy and Privacy Concepts from Law and Policy" at the Boston University Cyber Security, Law, and Society Alliance Seminar on March 12, 2018. (details here: https://www.bu.edu/hic/2018/02/06/...
Privacy Tools Project team member Jonathan Ullman has received a "CAREER: A Stable Foundation for Trustworthy Data Analysis" Award from the National Science Foundation.
For more information about Ullman's research, please visit the webpage associated with this award.
