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Are Anonymous Data-sets Possible?
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007A recent column by Christopher Soghoian on CNet predicts a decline in companies sharing “anonymized” user data with the academic research community. Along with last year’s AOL data release debacle, Soghoian points to a more recent case where researchers were able to de-anonymize a data set released by Netflix, comprising of 100 million movie ratings […]
Mine Data Not Details
Saturday, June 17th, 2006Wired News is carrying an AP report of the workshop on the Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection I attended at Harvard University’s Center for Research on Computation and Society a few weeks ago, where a common theme was coming up with ways to ensure that law enforcement, intelligence agencies and private companies can sift through […]
PORTIA @ NYU website launched
Monday, April 4th, 2005The PORTIA @ NYU website has launched:
PORTIA at NYU focuses on social, political, and ethical aspects of the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of sensitive information about people.
Project Team: Dr. Helen Nissenbaum (director), Timothy Weber, Michael Zimmer, Rachel Aridor, and Maja Petric.
PORTIA is a large National Science Foundation ITR grant to study technical, social, and […]
Submission to “Science and Technology in Society” Conference
Monday, January 31st, 2005I’ve made the following submission to the Science and Technology in Society conference sponsored by the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, The Center for International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington University, the Science and Technology Studies Program at Virginia Tech, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS.
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