ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality Hosts Events, Webinars

On Privacy Day in January, the ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality had two webinar presentations. The first was “People, Language, Large Language Models, and Privacy: A Technical Problem or a Fundamental Puzzle?” and the second was “From Dialogue to Data: How Statisticians Can Safeguard Privacy and Promote Trust in LLMs.” The committee hosts a Privacy Day webinar every year.

Upcoming Events

At JSM 2025, taking place August 2–7 in Nashville, Tennessee, there will be 22 sessions related to privacy and confidentiality, including an introductory overview lecture on data privacy and statistical science to be presented by Jerry Reiter and committee chair Claire Bowen. Other sessions prominently featuring privacy topics include the following:

• Methods and Considerations for Using Differential Privacy in Government Statistics
• The Role of Professional Ethical Practice Standards in Ensuring Scientific Integrity of AI
• Innovations in Privacy and Confidentiality: Synthetic Data, Differential Privacy, and Statistical Disclosure Control
• Novel Extensions and Applications of Differential Privacy
• Maintaining Privacy in Increasingly Public Societies

View more information about these sessions.

In addition to Privacy Day 2026, upcoming events include virtual and in-person (Washington, DC) events organized by the ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Interest Group in the fall and the Privacy and Public Policy Conference in February.