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IBM R&D Labs in Israel

Information Privacy Seminar 2013

Monday October 28, 2013
Organized by IBM Research – Haifa

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Program


09:00

Gathering

09:20

Welcome
Dr. Aya Soffer, Director, Big Data Analytics, IBM Research – Haifa


Part 1: Privacy, law and regulation

09:30

IBM and Privacy
Eva Salzmann, Europe Data Privacy Officer and Counsel, IBM France

9:45

Privacy by Design – from privacy law to actual privacy protection,
Adv. Yoram Hacohen, Privacy and Cybersecurity Strategist, Former Head of the Israel Law, Information, and Technology Authority (ILITA)

10:30

Privacy and/or innovation
Dr. Tal Zarsky, University of Haifa


Keynote

11:00

Obfuscation as a privacy principle
Prof. Helen Nissenbaum, New York University

Abstract: Against the inexorable pursuit of personal information, everywhere, and all the time, data obfuscation promises one source of relief against powerful machinations of aggregation, mining, and profiling. What's more, it holds strategic promise as a DIY mechanism, amenable to individual developers for individual users, circumventing corporate and governmental sponsorship or permission. Although exciting as a strategy for privacy self-help, obfuscation raises scientific, ethical, and political questions. This talk will define and illustrate data obfuscation, present examples, and reveal scientific vulnerabilities. It will focus on moral and political challenges that suggest data obfuscation is unethical or, at best, ungenerous, exposing the question whether and to what extent individuals are obligated to provide information about ourselves to others, even for the common good.

12:00

Break


Part 2: Privacy technologies

12:15

National identity documents: motivation, sensitivity, usage and protections
Dr. Oded Margalit, IBM Research – Haifa

13:00

Privacy in cloud
Dr. Boris Rozenberg, IBM Research – Haifa

13:30

Lunch

14:30

Syntactic anonymity and differential privacy
or
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
Prof. Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel


Part 3: Social aspects of privacy

15:15

The price of privacy
Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli, University of Haifa

16:00

Information privacy: the architects' perception
Dr. Irit Hadar, University of Haifa


Part 4: Posters and networking

16:30

Posters, demos, ice cream, and networking