To raise awareness about conferences focusing on statistical privacy and confidentiality among the ASA membership, the Privacy and Confidentiality Committee highlights past and upcoming conferences.
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JSM Session Touches on Equity
Sunghee Lee, Claire McKay Bowen, and Amanda Coston discussed racial bias, privacy concerns, and the fairness or unfairness of predictive algorithms at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Applying Equity Awareness in Statistical Data Privacy Takes a Village
Authors Claire McKay Bowen and Joshua Snoke examined the current state of ideas about privacy-preserving methods and data sharing. Learn about their five takeaways.
Claire McKay Bowen Talks Data Privacy
Claire McKay Bowen, author of Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World, talks about her book and ideas about data privacy in this interview.
Special Issue Illustrates Importance of Data Privacy
In the most recent issue of CHANCE, a special issue, authors focus on statistical data privacy and confidentiality.
Differential Privacy: What Is It?
The ASA’s Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality discuss statistical disclosure control and how to preserve the confidentiality of sensitive data.
New Law Offers Reforms to Improve Access to Data, Confidentiality Protections
Congress endorsed a suite of major bipartisan data reforms that will likely shape statistical policy for decades and the president enacted the provisions into law in January 2019.