and my sincerest thanks to the webinar organizing committee .
This is one of my section chair initiatives.
I encourage section members and any statistician at ASA who works with data from humans to attend.
Perhaps most striking about data privacy issues, and a reason for considering privacy protection part of a "statistical consultants toolbox" is the remarkable ease of "de-anonymization" aka - determining the identity of the person from their so-called "anonymized data" and the possibility that an "adversary" (privacy jargon) may misuse or have some malicious use for the data.
For example I'm sure many of us, including myself, have received a letter from some corporation, stating something like "our computers were breached and credit card, social security numbers, addresses" and so forth were stolen . And possibly that same letter notifies that we have been enrolled in a credit monitoring program. And we also may hear about "identity theft" and impersonation of a person to obtain their credit, mortgage and other information.
-thanks
--chris
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Chris Barker, Ph.D.
2023 Chair Statistical Consulting Section
Consultant and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics
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"In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds."
-Steve Lacy
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-16-2023 09:31
From: Andrea Mack
Subject: Webinar on Data Privacy
Dear ASA Consulting Section members:
I am happy to announce a Data Privacy webinar series organized by the Section Chair, Chris Barker, and the organizing committee.
Please join us for the first webinar in the series, Navigating Privacy Concerns in the Practice of Statistics: A Necessary Part of the Consulting Toolkit, by Joshua Snoke and Claire Bowen. The webinar will be held Tuesday, August 26th, from 12:00-1:30pm EST. There is no cost to attend. See the attached document for the webinar abstract and presenters' biographies.
Hope to see you there!
Andrea Mack, Consulting Section Activities Coordinator
Title: Navigating Privacy Concerns in the Practice of Statistics: A Necessary Part of the Consulting Toolkit
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2023
Time: 12:00-1:30pm EST
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lfuCurDwvHNxysbV51pJ8AkWsDEHX1uQv
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Andrea Mack
Statistician
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