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.
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P&C Committee Discusses Privacy Protections for Transportation Data in Big Data Environment
The Privacy and Confidentiality Committee organized an invited session at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings that focused on protecting participants’ privacy in large-scale transportation studies.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation Is Affecting—Maybe—Your Work
The European Union’s (EU) recently adopted General Data Protection Regulation marks a major transition in data privacy protections in the EU and may affect approaches to data access and confidentiality protections more broadly, including in US research and other statistical activities.
Links Lecture Award
The Links Lecture Award was created to honor the contributions of Constance Citro, Robert Groves, and Fritz Scheuren. The award recipient will present a lecture in the Washington, DC, area about their work at a mutually agreed-upon time.