Members of the ASA’s Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality will present at JSM 2021 and the 2021 World Statistics Congress.
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Significance Highlights: June Issue Looks at Biometrics and Space Debris
Discover how statistical ideas inform the design and implementation of biometric security systems and how estimates of dangerous space debris are produced—all in the June 2021 issue of Significance.
JSM Session Tackles Differential Privacy
The ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality discussed active research and challenges for agencies and data users in their organized invited session for JSM 2020, “Private Data for the Public Good: Formal Privacy in Survey Organizations.”
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.
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.