Members of the ASA’s Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality will present at JSM 2021 and the 2021 World Statistics Congress.

The Social Statistics Section will host a JSM 2020 invited session and an associated roundtable about how differential privacy is applied to various 2020 Census data products to help protect the privacy of individuals and what that means for formal privacy.

On January 28, a webinar sponsored by the ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Committee was presented by Michael Hawes, senior adviser for the Data Access and Privacy, Research, and Methodology Directorate of the US Census Bureau, titled “Differential Privacy and the 2020 Decennial Census.”

The ASA’s Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality discuss statistical disclosure control and how to preserve the confidentiality of sensitive data.

A privacy policy should focus on ensuring the process and procedural actions to protect information are followed, regardless of whether personally identifiable information exists in a file. Members of the ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Committee provide guidance for developing such a policy here.

The European Union’s (EU) recently adopted General Data Protection Regulation marks a major transition in data privacy protections in the EU and may affect approaches to data access and confidentiality protections more broadly, including in US research and other statistical activities.