# Summary Report of "Big Data Privacy Workshop: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice" (MIT) June 19, 2014 - [ Blog ](/news-categories/blog) The MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL has released its summary report of the March 3, 2014 workshop "Big Data Privacy: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice". This document is intended as a record of the workshop, the talks and discussions. Link to summary report (PDF): [http://web.mit.edu/bigdata-priv/images/MITBigDataPrivacyWorkshop2014\_final05142014.pdf](http://web.mit.edu/bigdata-priv/images/MITBigDataPrivacyWorkshop2014_final05142014.pdf) Link to webcast of the workshop in its entirety: [Original press release](/blog/mar-3-big-data-privacy-workshop-advancing-state-art-technology-and-practice-mit) from the workshop: > Organized by the MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL and the MIT Information Policy Project > > The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and MIT are co-hosting a public workshop entitled “Big Data Privacy: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice” on March 3, 2014. This event is part of a series of workshops on big data and privacy organized by the [MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL](http://bigdata.csail.mit.edu/) and the MIT Information Policy Project. This workshop is also the first in a series of events being held across the country in response to President Obama’s [call for a review of privacy issues](http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/01/23/big-data-and-future-privacy) in the context of increased digital information and the computing power to process it. > > The workshop will convene key stakeholders and thought leaders from across academia, government, industry, and civil society for a thoughtful dialogue on the future role of technology in protecting and managing privacy. We will concentrate on core technical challenges associated with big data applications and provide a theoretical grounding for privacy considerations in large-scale information systems. We will explore the state of the art in privacy-protecting technologies and discuss how they can be applied to a diversity of big data applications. Topics will include: > > - Big Data Opportunities and Risks > - State of the Art of Privacy Protection > - Review of Emerging Privacy Technologies > - Industry, Government, Academic Roundtable > > Speakers will include: > > - MIT President Rafael Reif > - White House Counselor John Podesta (Keynote Speaker) > - Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker (Keynote Speaker) > - Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research > - Shafi Goldwasser, MIT CSAIL > - Michael Stonebraker, MIT CSAIL > - And more... > > MIT would like to acknowledge the generous support of The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in making this event possible. > > \- See more at: --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf mitbigdataprivacyworkshop2014\_final05142014.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum6656/files/privacytools/files/mitbigdataprivacyworkshop2014_final05142014.pdf) --- Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)