Digital Government:

Project Update - April 2005

• Stephen E. Fienberg: "Homeland Insecurity: Datamining, Terrorism Detection, and Confidentiality"
  
  
• Alan F. Karr and Ashish P. Sanil: "Data Quality and Data Confidentiality for Microdata: Implications and Strategies"
  
  

• Alan F. Karr: "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases"
  
  

• George Duncan: "Realizing the Benefits of Statistical Research"
  
  

• George Duncan: "Protecting Tabular Data through Cyclic Perturbation"
  
  

• dg.o 2005 (Atlanta, May 16-18, 2005). Alan Karr will present both a project highlight and a tutorial entitled "Data Confidentiality and Statistical Disclosure Limitation." Details are available at http://dgrc.org/dgo2005/
  
  
• JSM 2005 (Minneapolis, August 7-11, 2005). NISS-organized session "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases" on Monday, August 8th from 2:00 to 3:50 PM. Presentations are by Max Buot: "Statistical Analysis in the Presence of Matching Uncertainty," Xiaodong Lin: "Privacy Preserving Statistical Analysis for Horizontally Partitioned Data Sets," and Ashish Sanil: "Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analyses of Distributed Data Using Data Perturbations"
  

• George Duncan is the Lord Simon Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, April 11-May 9. On May 3 he is the keynote speaker at the International Symposium--Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure in the 21st Century at the University of Manchester, presenting a talk entitled, "Confidentiality and Privacy in a Globalized Technology Society." On May 5 he visits the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in London along with Gerald Gates, Chief Privacy Officer of the U.S. Census Bureau, to discuss technical disclosure issues, data collection and survey issues, and privacy and policy issues with ONS staff, and again present the talk, “Protecting Tabular Data through Cyclic Perturbation”.

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