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International Symposium on Confidentiality, Privacy and
Disclosure in the 21st century
Mandec Centre, University of Manchester, UK
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/capri/symposium/
Tuesday 3 May 2005
Context
The issues of Confidentiality and Privacy took numerous twists and
turns during the second half of the 20th Century, as the media
globalisation, computing, the Internet, surveillance technology all
emerged and then became more sophisticated, faster, and more
efficient. As we have entered the 21st century the notion of the
Grid has appeared with its promise of fast distributed analyses over
multiple, very large sets of data. The potential for linking data of
different types, and from different sources has become more
feasible.
In the light of these changes the notion of confidentiality has itself
been required to changed taking into account the new technology,
but also using that technology through sophisticated systems of
disclosure control and more recently through such ideas as
intruder detection and data sentries.
This symposium will bring together international experts in
confidentiality and privacy research from the fields of law, data
protection, statistics, social science and computer science to
debate the implications of recent technological advances.
Key questions to be addressed are:
How is new technology going to affect the way we view privacy,
confidentiality and disclosure?
How can technology be used to enable confidentiality rather than
threatening it?
How is disclosure risk assessed? How is that likely to change over
time?
Papers will be given be experts in confidentiality and privacy:
describing their research, discussing the relationship between
research and policy, together with future gazing - outlining the
possibilities, potential threats and opportunities. The day will be
structured around eight speakers with plenty of discussion time.
Contributors
The key note address will be give by Professor George Duncan
from Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Other invited speakers include:
Professor John Forster (University of Southampton); Professor JJ
Salazar (University of Teneriffe); Dr Michael Carlson (University of
Stockholm); Julian Stander (University of Plymouth); Dr. Dean
Judson (US Census Bureau); Professor Charles Raab (University
of Edinburgh) and Dr Francis Aldhouse (UK, Information
Commission).
For details see
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/capri/symposium/
Dr. Kingsley Purdam
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
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Phone number UK: 0161-275-4719
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International 0044-161-275-4719
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