The ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Committee, in partnership with the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Confidentiality and Data Access Interest Group, is sponsoring an upcoming seminar series on issues relating to statistical confidentiality and data access. The Committee will also be sponsoring several sessions at JSM in Boston this August.
Privacy and Confidentiality Committee
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.”
Developing a Privacy Policy
A privacy policy should focus on ensuring the process and procedural actions to protect information are followed, regardless of whether personally identifiable information exists in a file. Members of the ASA Privacy and Confidentiality Committee provide guidance for developing such a policy here.