DARPA Young Faculty Award in Differential Privacy

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Baron, Joshua

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Oct 5, 2020, 2:37:10 PM10/5/20
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Greetings,

I wanted to make this community aware of a differential privacy young faculty award opportunity that DARPA announced today. You are eligible if you are tenure track at a US university and are under three years past tenure. The initial due date (for a one-page executive summary, excluding a cover page) is 26 October at 4pm EST. For more info on dates, and to send questions about the opportunity, see the official announcement at https://beta.sam.gov/opp/aabf37db17b949b88494684292eb854e/view?index=opp&page=1&organization_id=300000412. In particular, please don’t email me directly because I cannot directly answer you right back.

Topic Title: Analyzing Differential Privacy Misuse

Topic Description: Reliance on differential privacy technology has recently increased within the corporate and government world. At the same time, the availability and relative ease of deployment of differentially private algorithms increases the chance that such technology could be misused. This topic is interested in scalable techniques to detect the misuse of differential privacy technology. Misuse includes the ability to re-identify or reconstruct data despite differential privacy protections, issues of fairness of the outcome of differential privacy applications (e.g., misallocation, amplification of already biased input data), and gaps between technical security provided and user intuition of security. As part of demonstrating the scalability of their techniques, proposers should discuss the expected conditions when their techniques would apply, e.g., bounds on epsilon, data types/structure, differential privacy mechanisms used, etc. Proposers must also demonstrate the realism of their approach and analysis to include a discussion of the concrete, real-world scenarios that their analysis would directly impact. Approaches that analyze the misuse of specific, currently open source differential privacy techniques are explicitly in scope. Creating new differential privacy mechanisms is explicitly out of scope for this proposal.

All the best,
Josh


Joshua Baron, PhD
Program Manager
DARPA/I2O

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