Reading Notes

CSE 582

Table of contents

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

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