Digital Government:

Project Update - April 2006

Submitted for publication

• Daniel Ting, Stephen E. Fienberg, and Mario Trottini (2006). Random Orthogonal Matrix Masking Methodology for Microdata Release. Submitted for publication. (This an expanded version of the paper that appeared in the Proceedings of UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Data Confidentiality, Geneva, Switzerland, November 9-11, 2005, in Monographs in Official Statistics, Eurostat, Luxemburg, 89-98.)

At the Goddard Space Flight Center Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series (Greenbelt, MD, April 5, 2006)

Alan F. Karr, "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases". A webcast is available at http://isandtcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/webcasts.html.

At Ver 1.0 (Santa Fe, NM, April 9), sponsored by the Institute for Analytic Journalism

George Duncan (Keynote address), "Statistical Confidentiality: What Does it Mean for Journalists Use of Public Use Databases?(Ver 1.0 was the inaugural workshop of journalists, social scientists and computer scientists interested in intelligent use and assessment of public records databases.)

At the Department of Mathematics, South Dakota State University (Brookings, SD, April 20, 2006)

Stephen E. Fienberg, "Privacy and Confidentiality in a Homeland Security Context: Matching, Disclosure Limitation, and the Hunt for Terrorists"

At the Statistical Society of Ottawa Symposium (Ottawa, ONT, April 20, 2006)

Alan F. Karr, "Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases"

At the CyLab Partners Conference (Pittsburgh, April 21, 2006)

George Duncan, "Inference control: Confidentiality for Biometrics", (CyLab [http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/] is a research center at Carnegie Mellon University focusing on computer security issues.)

• Stephen Fienberg is a member of a new National Research Council committee "The Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information For Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals." The committee had its first meeting in Washington on April 27-28, 2006.