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		<title>Privacy in the NYT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times (front &#8220;page&#8221; on the web last night) does a good job of highlighting some of the intricacies of &#8220;privacy&#8221; in online social networks. The article links to a surprising number of technical research articles. There were also two quotes that stuck out. &#8216;“Technology has rendered the conventional definition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=281&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IPAM Workshop Wrap-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was the Statistical and Learning-Theoretic Challenges in Data Privacy, which I co-organized with Cynthia Dwork, Steve Fienberg and Sesa Slavkovic. As I explained in my initial post on the workshop, the goal was to tie together work on privacy in statistical databases with the theoretical foundations of learning and statistics. Slides for most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=258&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Sloan Fellows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again this year, theorists and their friends were well represented among the Sloan Research Fellows. These are the names I recognize: Joel Tropp Jonathan Kelner Constantinos Daskalakis Amin Saberi Brent Waters Balázs Szegedy Congratulations to all!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=253&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborative tools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing is missing in my collaborative online life, though, and that is a good white board. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=235&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A private event</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t exactly in stealth mode, but I heard about Data Privacy Day 2010 only after it happened. Born of an effort to promote awareness of data privacy issues by the non-profit The Privacy Projects, this year&#8217;s celebration (?) included events at a several universities. Most interesting to me was a roundtable discussion at UC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=236&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting reads this morning on military security. First, Matt Blaze blogs about physical and procedural security measures at a decommissioned nuclear ICBM silo. Startling pictures and lots of food for thought. The cultural and game theoretic aspects of our current conflicts are pretty different from those of the cold war; I was surprised to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=228&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Differential privacy and the secrecy of the sample</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post was laid out lazily, using Luca&#8216;s lovely latex2wp.) — 1. Differential Privacy — Differential privacy is a definition of &#8220;privacy&#8221; for statistical databases. Roughly, a statistical database is one which is used to provide aggregate, large-scale information about a population, without leaking information specific to individuals. Think, for example, of the data from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=195&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Locational Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leo Reyzin pointed out the following EFF article on locational privacy. The article does a reasonable job of explaining the role that new technology can have in both violating and protecting privacy. I can&#8217;t count how many times I&#8217;ve had a similar conversation (ok, monologue) with government folks and non-technical friends. Maybe next time I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=192&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Je m&#8217;en (af)fiche</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucked neatly between (US) Independence Day and (French) Bastille Day this year was YESS, a joint French-US workshop for &#8220;young scientists and engineers&#8221;, held at the French embassy. This year&#8217;s theme was Identity Management, which largely meant biometrics, database privacy and anonymous communication. I wasn&#8217;t sure from the initial invitation how serious the whole thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=136&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systematization of Knowledge track at Oakland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am on the PC for &#8220;Oakland&#8221; this year (a.k.a. the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy). I have been on the PC of a few conferences in areas outside my immediate expertise and so far I&#8217;ve enjoyed the experience. Usually, I am asked to join because they need someone to help them reject carefully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6530012&amp;post=116&amp;subd=adamdsmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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