Workshop on the Ethics of Re-identification
What are the benefits and harms and practices to follow when putting names to people in data?
May 10, 2013
8am-2:30pm
Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge St, Room 020, Cambridge, MA (map)
Topics to Workshop
- Protecting individuals whose data are re-identified.
- Interplay with data sharing.
- Making re-identification results public and scientific publication.
- Publication and reproducibility of re-identification results and scientific value.
- Are re-identified results now confidential?
- Direct contact with re-identified subjects.
- Legal maneuvers.
- Validity and scoring methods.
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Welcome
Agenda
Continental Breakfast 8am
Welcome (10 min) 8:15am
Latanya Sweeney and Julia Brody
Meet and Greet (60 min) 8:30-9:30am
Invited guests introduce themselves and their interest or expertise in the topic.
Re-identification (30 min) 9:30-10:00am
- Introduction to mechanics and basic issues
- Examples
- General discussion (5 minutes)
Brainstorming Sessions: (120 minutes) 10:00-12:00pm
See list of 8 discussion topics above.
Lunch: 12:00-12:30pm
Informal discussions.
Perspectives on Re-identification Practices (110 minutes) 12:40-2:20pm
Reflections focusing on various professional perspectives on the issues and topics as a whole.
- Ethical
- Legal/Regulatory
- Stakeholder, Data holder, Participant
- Computational, Statistical
Closing Remarks
IQSS |
Data Privacy Lab |
Silent Spring Institute |
Northeastern University
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