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Latanya Sweeney's new blog "Tech@FTC"

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As a first step to engaging external thinkers who are interested in participating in innovative solutions at the intersection of technology and governance, Latanya Sweeney (FTC Chief Technologist & Privacy Tools project co-PI) intends to use the Tech@FTC...

George Kellaris Featured on CRCS Blog

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Privacy Tools team member George Kellaris is featured on the CRCS blog. The profile, George Kellaris on the Fraught Line between Usefulness and Privacy, outlines Kellaris' current research projects.

"Transparency establishes trust" (Latanya Sweeney, Chief Technologist, FTC)

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Latanya Sweeney, currently Chief Technologist at the FTC, just published a blog post entitled "Transparency Establishes Trust" about her work on the sharing of health data. Transparency Establishes Trust We are amidst an era of open data –a period in...

Bun and Thaler win ICALP 2013 award for Best Paper in Track A

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Graduate students Mark Bun and Justin Thaler were awarded Best Paper in Track A for their submission " Dual Lower Bounds for Approximate Degree and Markov-Bernstein Inequalities" at the 40th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming...

Kobbi Nissim Receives Georgetown's 2020 Distinguished Achievement in Research Award

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Congratulations to Kobbi Nissm, longtime part of the Privacy Tools Project leadership and McDewitt Chair in Computer Science at Georgetown University, for receiving Georgetown's 2020 Distinguished Achievement in Research Award! https://blog.provost...

New Cooperative Agreement from the US Census Bureau

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The Privacy Tools Project is excited to be a partner on the new Cooperative Agreement from the US Census Bureau awarded to Boston University, aimed at developing methods for providing formal privacy guarantees for data collected through complex sample...

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Follow our blog / news feed Attend the TIP-TIG discussion series at the Data Privacy Lab Attend the CRCS Lunch Seminar series Attend events at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society Apply for one of our open positions Email us at privacytools-info@seas...

Census Bureau Awards Cooperative Agreement to Team led by Senior Personnel Kobbi Nissim

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The team is led by Privacy Tools Senior Researcher Kobbi Nissim as PI at Georgetown University, and includes Privacy Tools co-PIs Salil Vadhan and Urs Gasser at Harvard and our Collaborator Adam Smith at Penn State University. Their work for the Census...

Bruce Schneier: "The NSA, Snowden, and Surveillance"

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Date: Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119

Speaker: Bruce Schneier, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School; Honorary CRCS Affiliate

Title: The NSA, Snowden, and Surveillance

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"Designing Software Systems that Comply with Privacy Laws" (CRCS Lunch Seminar)

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CRCS Privacy and Security Lunch Seminar Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Speaker: Annie Anton Title: Designing Software Systems that Comply with Privacy Laws Abstract: Properly protecting information is in all our best interests, but it is a complex...

Education and Outreach

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The Privacy Tools project makes considerable efforts to education both the public and greater academic community across disciplines to communicate the disclosure risks associated with research data and the ongoing efforts to successful management of...

"Technology Science" (Latanya Sweeney, Chief Technologist, FTC)

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Latanya Sweeney is using the Tech@FTC blog to facilitate explorations and ignite brainstorming on FTC-related topics among scholars interested in participating in innovative solutions at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Her latest blog...