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
www.barkerstats.com---
"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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