TCS+ talk *this week*: Wednesday, May 7, Palak Jain, Boston University
Clement Canonne
This is a reminder that the next TCS+ talk is taking place this week, Wednesday, May 7th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Pacific Time, 19:00 Central European Time, 17:00 UTC). The speakers' slides will be made available at https://sites.google.com/view/tcsplus/welcome/past-talks after the talk.
If you’d like to join the Zoom talk, please sign up using the form at https://sites.google.com/view/tcsplus/welcome/next-tcs-talk. The talk will also be recorded and posted shortly afterwards on our YouTube channel, here: http://www.youtube.com/user/TCSplusSeminars.
Hoping to see you all there,
The organizers
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Speaker: Palak Jain (Boston University)
Title: Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release
Abstract: Our work introduces demographic coherence enforcement, a framework for reasoning about privacy which is purposefully designed with socio-technical usability in mind. It contains sufficient formalism to enable rigorous analysis and provable realisation, all while keeping tangible harms compellingly salient. The framework also lends itself to natural experimental evaluation, which could help build practical intuition and support tangible assessment of risks.
In this talk, I will present our approach, which characterises the adversary as a predictive model and reframes the question of privacy loss in terms of potential inferential harms to vulnerable groups. I will then define demographic coherence enforcement, a property that we argue is necessary for privacy-preserving data curation. Finally, I will briefly touch on the connections between our framework and some existing privacy tools.
Based on joint work with Mark Bun, Marco Carmisino, Gabe Kaptchuk, and Satchit Sivakumar.