On June 3, 2006 Harvard University's Center for Research on Computation and Society held a day-long workshop on Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection.

Agenda

(Click on the title of the talk to see the related slides.)

8 am - 9:00 Breakfast & Registration

9:00 - 9:15 Greetings and Introduction

Stuart Shieber, Director, Center for Research on Computation and Society; Harvard College Professor and James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science

9:15 - 10:00 Keynote

"A Vision for Countering Terrorism Through Information and Privacy Protection Technologies," Bob Popp, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Aptima, Inc., and formerly Deputy of the Information Awareness Office and Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

10:00 - 10:15 Coffee

10:15 - 12:15 Applications

"Real Time Automated Disease Surveillance: Opportunities and Challenges," Kenneth Mandl, MD, M.P.H., Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics and the Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

"Web Logs, Privacy, and Data Surveillance," Jeff Ubois, Internet Archive
"The Federal Interagency RFID Working Group," Lew Oleinick, Privacy Technology Advisor for the Defense Logistics Agency.

"Towards Tiny Trusted Third Parties," Alex Iliev and Sean Smith, Dartmouth College.

"What Homeland Security Can Learn From the Homeless: The P3Tracker System," Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for International Data Privacy; Associate Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

12:15 - 1:30 Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch

1:30 - 3:30 Algorithms and Approaches

"Self-Enforcing Privacy", Philippe Golle, Ph.D., Palo Alto Research Center.

"Private Searching on Streaming Data," Rafail Ostrovsky, Ph.D., Director, Center for Information and Computation Security; Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles.

"Data Privacy and Background Knowledge," Johannes Gehrke, Ph.D., Associate Director, Cornell Theory Center; Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Cornell University

"Re-identification Risk in Distributed Location Surveillance", Brad Malin, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

3:30 - 4:00 Extended Coffee

4:00 - 5:00 Data 2: Practice

"The Sound of One Hand Clapping / Knowledge Discovery without Disclosure / A Koan for the Information Age. " John Bliss, J.D., Privacy Strategist, Entity Analytic Solutions, IBM Software Group

"Progress on the PORTIA Project in Privacy-Preserving Data Mining," Rebecca Wright, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Privacy, Obligations, and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment (PORTIA) project; Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology.

5:00 - 5:45 Closing Address

James Bamford, J.D., Author, The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets

5:45 Adjournment