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***Apologies for cross posting*** We would like to remind you of the following event. International Symposium on Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure in the 21st century Mandec Centre, University of Manchester, UK http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/capri/symposium/ 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 more details go to http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/capri/symposium/