Updates
PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2008
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2008 (PSD 2008)
Istanbul, Turkey, Sep. 24-26, 2008
http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008
AIMS AND GOALS
Privacy in statistical databases is about finding
tradeoffs to the tension between the increasing
societal and economical demand for accurate information
and the legal and ethical obligation to protect
the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are
the respondents providing the statistical data. The motivation for respondent privacy is one of survival
for statistical databases:
statistical agencies or survey institutes cannot expect to
collect accurate information from individual or
corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy
of their responses is guaranteed.
Beyond respondent privacy, there are two additional privacy
dimensions to be considered: privacy for the data owners
(organizations owning or gathering the database, who wouldn't
like to share the data they have collected at great expense)
and privacy for
the users (those who submit queries to the database and would like
their analyses to stay private).
"Privacy in Statistical Databases 2008" (PSD 2008) is
a conference sponsored and organized by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat)
and the CONSOLIDER ARES project (http://crises-deim.urv.cat/ares),
with proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture
Notes in Computer Science. It purpose is to gather
world-wide, high-level research in statistical database privacy.
PSD 2008 is a successor to PSD 2006 (Rome, Dec. 13-15, 2006, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2006)
and PSD 2004 (Barcelona, June 9-11, 2004, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2004),
both with proceedings published by Springer in LNCS 4302 and LNCS 3050,
respectively. Those three PSD conferences follow a tradition of high-quality technical conferences on SDC which started with "Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in 1998
and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued
with the AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg
in 2001 and with proceedings published in Springer LNCS vol. 2316.
ORGANIZATION
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
John Abowd (Cornell University, USA)
Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA)
Jordi Castro (Polytechnical University of Catalonia)
Lawrence Cox (Nat. Center for Health Statistics, USA)
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK)
Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria, Italy)
Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Luisa Franconi (ISTAT, Italy)
Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany)
Anco Hundepool (Statistics Netherlands)
Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Julia Lane (NORC/University of Chicago, USA)
Jane Longhurst (Office for National Statistics, UK)
Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Josep M. Mateo-Sanz (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
Krish Muralidhar (University of Kentucky, USA)
Silvia Polettini (University of Naples, Italy)
Yosef Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel)
Gerd Ronning (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Juan Jose Salazar (University of La Laguna, Spain)
Maria Joao Santos (EUROSTAT)
Yucel Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey)
Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands)
Francesc Sebe (Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
Natalie Shlomo (University of Southampton, UK)
Julian Stander (University of Plymouth, UK)
Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia)
William E. Winkler (Census Bureau, USA)
Laura Zayatz (Census Bureau, USA)
PROGRAM CHAIR
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia)
GENERAL CHAIR
Yucel Saygin (Sabanci University, Turkey)