Anonymisation and Privacy Protection in the age of Mass Data Collection
In the first session in our webinar series, jointly organized by Swiss Re Institute, IBM Research, and Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, two experts will discuss the limits of data anonymisation and de-identification to protect the privacy of individuals.
We live in a time when information about most of our movements and actions is collected and stored in real time. The availability of large-scale behavioral data dramatically increases our capacity to understand and potentially affect the behavior of individuals and collectives.
The use of this data, however, raises legitimate privacy concerns. Anonymisation is meant to address these concerns: allowing data to be fully used while preserving individuals' privacy. Two experts will first discuss how traditional data protection mechanisms fail to protect people's privacy in the age of big data. More specifically, they will show how the mere absence of obvious identifiers such as name or phone number or the addition of noise are not enough to prevent re-identification. Second, they will describe what they see as a necessary evolution of the notion of data anonymisation towards an anonymous use of data. Finally, they will by discussing some of the modern privacy engineering techniques currently developed to allow large-scale behavioral data to be used while giving individual strong privacy guarantees.
Speakers

Jeffrey Bohn
USA
Head of Research & Engagement at Swiss Re Institute. Dr. Bohn served as Chief Science Officer and Head of GX Labs at State Street Global Exchange in San Francisco. He also established the Portfolio Analytics and Valuation Department within State Street Global Markets Japan in Tokyo. Bohn previously ran the Risk and Regulatory Financial Services consulting practice at PWC Japan.

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye
Great Britain
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at Imperial College London where he heads the Computational Privacy Group. De Montjoye also acts as a Special Adviser to EC Competition Commissioner Vestager. Yves-Alexandre is also a research affiliate at MIT where he received his PhD from in 2015. His research aims at understanding how the unicity of human behavior impacts the privacy of individuals--through re-identification or inference--in rich high-dimensional datasets such as mobile phone, credit cards, or browsing data.
Information
Date
16 June 2020
Time
11:00-12:00 (CEST / Zurich time)
Venue
Online
Language
English
Price
Free of charge
Information
Datum
21. Januar 2018
Preise
190 CHF
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Sprache
Englisch
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