The ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality supports Data Privacy Day each year—held this year on January 28—to create awareness of privacy issues and their importance to the public. As part of this effort, a webinar titled “What Is a Privacy-Loss Budget, and How Is It Used to Design Privacy Protection for a Confidential Database?” was presented February 1 by John Abowd, chief scientist and associate director for research and methodology at the US Census Bureau and professor of economics, ativan online cheap statistics, and information science at Cornell University.

Additionally, the committee’s website provides several resources for policymakers, statisticians, and the public, including an overview of methods to maintain data confidentiality; training modules; and discussions about various types of data, laws, and regulations. The latest postings are a draft of guidelines for developing a privacy policy and a committee history piece written by Margo Anderson.

Privacy and confidentiality problems and questions can be sent to committee chair, Aleksandra Slavkovic.