Privacy and Databases

Group Meeting Schedule

Winter 2006-07

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Jan 17
 Everyone Organizational meeting
Jan 24
 Dilys Thomas ThreeBallot: Ronald Rivests Voting scheme
Jan 31
 Bob Mungamuru CIDR Paper: Privacy and Availability
Feb 7
 Dilys Thomas Probabilistic Anonymity
Feb 14
Ying Xu Detecting Keys in a Database
Feb 21
 Sumit Mehra NISE
Feb 28
 TBD ---
Mar 7
 Anupam Vanderbilt
Mar 14
 Japan visitor Talk

 

Previous Quarters

Fall 2006-07

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Oct 12
 Everyone Organizational meeting
Oct 19
 Dilys Thomas Laws Shaping the field of Privacy. Recent papers in privacy.
Oct 26
 Shubha Nabar Aggregates on K-Anonymous data. Privacy of the Netflix dataset.
Nov 2
 Bob Mungamuru Anonymization of Sequential Releases
Nov 9
 Sharada Sundaram Fine grained Authorization in Databases
Nov 16
 Anupam and Adam MyHealth portal Privacy issues
Nov 23
 Dilys Thomas Probabilistic Anonymity
Nov 30
 Vignesh, Dilys, Hector, Rajeev CIDR paper followup
Dec 7
 To decide

 

Spring 2005-06

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
May. 26
 Dilys Thomas Achieving Anonymity via Clustering
May. 17
 Adam Barth Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications
May. 11
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Models and Algorithms for Data Privacy (PhD Defense)
Apr. 21
 Sharada Sundaram Data Privacy issues at TCS
Apr. 14
 Ying Xu and Bob Mungamuru CIDR paper follow-up discussion

 

Winter 2005-06

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Mar.   8
 Matt Blaze Privacy and Security Challenges/Problems
Mar.   1
 Sachin Lodha and Harrick Vin Privacy issues faced by Tata Research Development and Design Centre
Feb. 22
 David Mazieres Asbestos project
Feb. 15
 Rajeev Motwani Electronic Medical Records
Feb.   1
 Shubha Nabar Query Auditing: Utility, Updates, and Open Problems
Jan. 25
 Bob Mungamuru Update about TRUST project
Jan. 18
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Deciding agenda for the quarter

Fall 2005-06

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Oct.  7
 Bob Mungamuru Key Configuration Management: Understanding Alternatives for Safeguarding Data
Oct. 14
 Dilys Thomas Deriving Private information from Randomized data
Oct. 21
 Ying Xu On the Quantification of Privacy
Oct. 28
 Shubha Nabar l-Diversity: Privacy beyond k-anonymity
Nov.   4
 Cynthia Dwork Differential Privacy
Nov. 11
 Rob Tibshirani Techniques used in Statistical Analysis of Data Sets
Dec.   2
 Rajeev Motwani Open Problem Session

Summer 2004-05

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Jul. 28
 Hector Garcia-Molina Designing Yahoo's Privacy System
Aug. 11
 Ying Xu Secure XML publishing without information leakage in the presence of data inference

Spring 2004-05

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Apr.   7
 Prat Moghe Identity Theft - Can we have our electronic cake and eat it too?
Apr. 14(a)
 Arvind Arasu Deriving Private Information from Randomized Data
Apr. 14(b)
 Bob Mungamuru Privacy-Preserving Inter-Database Operations
Apr. 21
 Dilys Thomas Private Logs for Database Recovery in Anonymous Transactions
Apr. 28
 Canceled
May   5
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Algorithm Quals: Statistical Databases
May 12
 Canceled (PORTIA site visit)
May 19
 Pei Cao Hippocratic File System: Protecting Privacy in Networked Storage
May 26(a)
 Gagan Aggarwal Privacy-Enhancing k-Anonymization of Customer Data
May 26(b)
 Adam Barth Correcting Privacy Violations in Blind-Carbon-Copy (BCC) Encrypted Email
Jun.   2
 Dilys Thomas Privacy Preserving OLAP
Jun.   9
 Prasanna Ganesan New directions related to the P4P vision paper

Winter 2004-05

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Jan. 20
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Deciding agenda for the quarter
Jan. 27
 Nina Mishra Simulatable Auditing
Feb.   3
 Anish Das Sharma Auditing Compliance with a Hippocratic Database
Feb. 10
 Canceled
Feb. 17 (a)
 Dilys Thomas Discussion on CIDR paper implementation
Feb. 17 (b)
 Ying Xu Follow-up on Auditing Compliance paper
Feb. 24
 Hector Garcia-Molina Exploring Group Encryption for a Database System
Mar.   3
 Canceled
Mar. 10
 Cynthia Dwork Helping Kinsey Compute: Statistics with Secrecy
Mar. 17
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Privacy-Preserving Set Operations

Fall 2004-05

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Oct.  7
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Deciding agenda for the quarter
Oct. 14
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Privacy: A Machine Learning View
Oct. 21
 Adam Barth Access Policy Languages and Privacy
Oct. 28
 Prasanna Ganesan CIDR paper review discussion
Nov.  4 (a)
 Eu-Jin Goh Towards Universal Computation on Encrypted Data
Nov.  4 (b)
 Mayank Bawa Problems related to P4P paper
Nov. 11
 Adrian Lane Securing Consumable Information
Nov. 18
 Qi Su Summer work at IBM Almaden
Dec.  2
 Sergio Marti Managing RFID Data

Summer 2003-04

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Jun. 24
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Anonymizing Tables for Privacy Protection
Jul.  1
 Rajeev Motwani CIDR paper discussion
Jul.  9
 Utkarsh Srivastava
Dilys Thomas		 Summary of Bala Iyer papers
Jul. 16
 Prasanna Ganesan CIDR paper: Discussion of outline
Jul. 23
 Prasanna Ganesan CIDR paper: Discussion of first draft
Jul. 30
 Prasanna Ganesan CIDR paper: Final draft revision
Aug.  5
 Prasanna Ganesan CIDR paper: Discussion of open problems
Aug. 13
 Rebecca Wright Privacy-Preserving Bayesian Network Structure Computation on Distributed Heterogeneous Data

Spring 2003-04

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Mar. 31
 Canceled
Apr.  7
 Jason Hong An Architecture for Privacy-Sensitive Ubiquitous Computing
Apr. 14
 Ying Xu Secure Computation of Set Intersection
Apr. 22
 Katherine Walker
Michael Samols		 Email Postage: A Secure and Efficient Approach
Apr. 29
 Rajeev Motwani Discussion of Open Problems
May   6
 Dilys Thomas Fine Grained Access Control and Secure Multiparty Computation
May 13
 Cynthia Dwork Toward Privacy in Public Databases (contd.)
May 20
 Ying Xu Hiding Sensitive Rules in Data Mining
May 27
 Bala Iyer Database Privacy: SQL processing of Encrypted Data
Jun.  3
 Rajeev Motwani CIDR paper discussion
Jun. 10
 Prasanna Ganesan CIDR paper discussion (contd.)

Winter 2003-04

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Jan. 14
 Rajat Mukherjee Privacy and Trust in Social Networks [ Abstract ]
Jan. 21
 Nina Mishra Statistical Databases: Query Restriction [ PS ] [ References ]
Jan. 28
 Dilys Thomas Privacy in Data Mining
Feb.  4
 Hector Garcia-Molina (a) Vision Paper Discussion   (b) SERF project and Information Privacy
Feb. 11
 Nobuyuki Osaki Regulatory Compliance Solutions for Security and Privacy [ Abstract ]
Feb. 18
 Dan Boneh New Life for Group Signatures [ PDF ]
Feb. 25
 Cynthia Dwork Toward Privacy in Public Databases
Mar.  3
 Shubha Nabar Privacy Preserving Data Mining
Mar. 10
 Kobbi Nissim Privacy and Usability of Multi-attribute Databases [ PDF ]

Fall 2003-04

Date Speakers Topics (with links to notes)
Oct.  8
 Dilys Thomas Overview of Database Privacy
Oct. 15
 Mayank Bawa Privacy through Anonymity
Oct. 22
Oct. 29
 Gagan Aggarwal Secure Multiparty Computation, Oblivious Transfer [ PS ]
Nov.  5
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Broadcast Encryption, Searchable Public Key Encryption [ PS ]
Nov. 12
 Krishnaram Kenthapadi Private Information Retrieval [ PS ]
Nov. 19
 Eu-Jin Goh How to Search on Encrypted Data [ PS ][ Slides ]
Nov. 26
 Utkarsh Srivastava P3P and Hippocratic Databases
Dec.  3
 Michael Abbott Privacy/Security issues in Web Services [ Abstract ]
Dec. 10 (a)
 Ying Xu Access Control
Dec. 10 (b)
 Mayank Bawa Individual Centric Privacy

 

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