PETs for the Public Interest

Agenda for Workshop 2

The workshop will take place on March 27 at 500 1st St NW, Washington, D.C., 9th floor.

Time (all EDT) Activity
(9:45-10:00) Pre-workshop coffee (optional)
10:00-10:15 Introductions and welcome activity
10:15-12:00 Talks on successful PETs deployments
  • 10:15-10:40:
    • Privacy, Census Data, and Redistricting
    • Moon Duchin (Professor of Mathematics, Tufts University)
  • 10:15-10:40:
    • A Kerfuffle: Differential Privacy and the 2020 Census
    • Aloni Cohen (University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Computer Science)
  • 10:40-11:05:
    • TBD
    • Chris Soghoian
  • 11:05-11:10: Break
  • 11:10-11:35:
    • The NIST Privacy Enhancing Cryptography Project
    • Angela Robinson (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
  • 11:35-12:00:
    • Smart Contracts, Accountability, and Privacy
    • Ed Felten (Offchain Labs, Co-founder and Chief Scientist)
12:00-1:15 Lunch
1:15-3:15 Focus group discussions
  • Government data releases
    • Census, HIPAA, etc.
    • Discussion lead: Rachel Cummings
  • PETs for transparency in governance
    • FISA, biometric databases, etc.
    • Discussion lead: Gabriel Kaptchuk
  • Consumer and employee privacy
    • Advertisements, compliance, etc.
    • Discussion lead: Shaanan Cohney
  • Regulation of PETs
    • Raising the privacy waterline
    • Discussion lead: Alexandra Wood
3:15-3:30 Wrap-up