The American Statistical Association is dedicated to increasing external visibility and support for the statistics profession and promoting the use of statistics in other fields. The committees of the ASA’s Professional Issues and Visibility Council are critical to making that happen.
Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality
New Developments in Synthetic Data Generation: Privacy Day Webinar Summary
As the world grapples with how best to share confidential data, there is a rising interest in synthetic data methods, which are used to protect confidentiality of microdata units.
Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality News for June 2021
Members of the ASA’s Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality will present at JSM 2021 and the 2021 World Statistics Congress.
Social Statistics Section Plans Privacy Discussions
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.
Privacy Day Webinar 2020: A Summary
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.”
Summary of JSM 2019 Session on Formal Privacy: Making an Impact at Large Organizations
The Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality organized a JSM session that featured four experts who have implemented formal privacy models or variants of differential privacy.
Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality Offers Resources
The ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality has tips to keep your data safe online.