Digital Government:

Project Update - May 2006

Completed recently

• Stephen E. Fienberg (2006). Homeland Insecurity: Data Mining, Privacy, Disclosure Limitation, and the Hunt for Terrorists. Chapter prepared for Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security. H. Chen, E. Reid, J. Sinai, A. Silke, and B. Ganor, eds., Springer-Verlag.

Accepted for Publication

• A. F. Karr, C. N. Kohnen, A. Oganian, J. P. Reiter, A. P. Sanil (2006). A framework for evaluating the utility of data altered to protect confidentiality. To appear in The American Statistician.

At the IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing 2006, Atlanta, GA, May 10-12:

• Anna Oganian: "Privacy in Statistical Databases: k-Anonymity through Microaggregation"

At the MSRI Conference on the Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik, Berkeley, CA: May 17-20:

• Anna Oganian: Poster presentation "Multistage masking methods for microdata protection," winner of the award for the best poster.

At dg.o 2006, San Diego, CA, May 21-24:

• Alan F. Karr: Project Highlight

Special Invited Presentation, Survey Methods Section, Statistical Society of Canada, London, Ontario, May 29:

• Michael Larsen: Nondisclosure, record linkage, counterterrorism, and statistics.
  (Available at http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Elarsen/presentations/Larsen%20SSC%202006%20rp.ppt)