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CSE 582


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  1. Privacy, Ethics, and Data Access: A Case Study of the Fragile Families Challenge”

Privacy, Ethics, and Data Access: A Case Study of the Fragile Families Challenge”

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  • Fundamental tension between accessibility for research and protection of privacy in data
  • Social data can be valuable and dangerous
  • Data collected with informed consent; already available to researchers, carry information about many people around the focal child
  • De-identified data can be re-identified via merging
  • Differential privacy: an adversary cannot tell if any individual’s record is included in a sample.
    • HOwever, not always possible to achieve
  • Homomorphic encryption: practical and conceptual concerns
  • Attacking data manually to evaluate security