Berkman Luncheon Series >

jun
28
2011

Privacy Rethinks and the Example of Privacy-Preserving Marketplaces

Latanya Sweeney, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

Tuesday, June 28, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.

Societal demands to share large-scale collections of detailed personal information are driving new directions for privacy. These rethinks are happening within legacy environments (e.g., the HIPAA Privacy Rule). And these rethinks are happening at architectural levels too (e.g., open consent). Our prior research exposes ways of thinking about design components when architecting privacy solutions, and so, we use this lens to examine some new architectures in depth.  One of these will be the privacy-preserving marketplace paradigm, which seeks to design data sharing arrangements as markets that must insulate or compensate data subjects for economic harms.

About Latanya

Latanya Sweeney, PhD is a Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and founder and director of the Data Privacy Lab.  She has a long history of weaving technology and policy together to remove stakeholder barriers to technology adoption and has impacted American privacy policy.  Her work is explicitly cited in 2 federal regulations (the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the Health Data Breach Regulation).  In 2009, GAO appointed her to the Federal HIT Policy Committee. She received her PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information, see dataprivacylab.org/people/sweeney.