Finding Lists of People on the Web
Among the vast amounts of personal information published on the World Wide Web ("Web") and indexed by search engines are lists of names of people.
Research
Navigating Computer Science Research Through Waves of Privacy Concerns: Discussions among Computer Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science research and practice are raising growing privacy concerns among the public and government.
How (Not) to Protect Genomic Data Privacy in a Distributed Network: Using Trail Re-identification to Evaluate and Design Anonymity Protection Systems
The increasing integration of patient-specific genomic data into clinical practice and research raises serious privacy concerns.
Inferring Genotype from Clinical Phenotype through a Knowledge Based Algorithm
Genomic information is becoming increasingly useful for studying the origins of disease. Recent studies have focused on discovering new genetic loci and the influence of these loci upon disease.
Achieving k-Anonymity Privacy Protection Using Generalization and Suppression
Often a data holder, such as a hospital or bank, needs to share person-specific records in such a way that the identities of the individuals who are the subjects of the data cannot be determined.
K-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy
Consider a data holder, such as a hospital or a bank, that has a privately held collection of person-specific, field structured data.
Information Explosion
Technology Policy for a World of Skew-Distributed Outcomes
This paper draws implications for technology policy from evidence on the size distribution of returns from eight sets of data on inventions and innovations attributable to private sector firms and uni
New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation
Datafly: A System for Providing Anonymity in Medical Data
We present a computer program named Data y that maintains anonymity in medical data by automatically generalizing, substituting, inserting and removing information as appropriate with- out losing many
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