TCS+ talk: Wednesday, May 7, Palak Jain, Boston University
Clement Canonne
Our next talk will take place this coming Wednesday, May 7th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Pacific Time, 19:00 Central European Time, 17:00 UTC). Palak Jain from Boston University will speak about "Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release" (abstract below).
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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.
Clement Canonne
The link for tomorrow's TCS+ talk has been posted: you will be able to join tomorrow (Wednesday), starting at 12:50pm ET: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98954371813?pwd=V1hxN2Nrc2c5OEJFSWRqS29JeWM1dz09
(you will need a to be logged in on Zoom to join: a free account suffices)
Best,
-- Clément, on behalf of the TCS+ team
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Dear TCS+ followers,
Our next talk will take place this coming Wednesday, May 7th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Pacific Time, 19:00 Central European Time, 17:00 UTC). Palak Jain from Boston University will speak about "Enforcing Demographic Coherence: A Harms Aware Framework for Reasoning about Private Data Release" (abstract below).
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.
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