Research Accomplishments of Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D.

Overview Medical Informatics       Scrub       Datafly       Genomic identifiability       Patient-centered management Database Security       k-anonymity Surveillance       Selective-revelation       Risk assessment server       PrivaMix Vision       Face de-identification Biometrics       Contactless capture Policy and Law       Identifiability of de-identified data       HIPAA assessments       Privacy-preserving surveillance Public Education       Identity angel       SSNwatch       CameraWatch Quantitative assessments

Public Education: CameraWatch [68, 36] Problem Statement: Given publicly available webcams, construct methods that: (1) find URLs of publicly available webcams; and, (2) captures images from publicly available webcams. Description: As a contribution to (1), Dr. Sweeney built semantic learning algorithms that automatically mined about 10,000 URLs of publicly available webcams. The images below are from some of the webcams found. Some images (e.g., cars on the road) were expected, but others (e.g., an office reception desk) were not. She then constructed one of the first repositories of links to publicly available on-line webcams. 41 Her current work on (2) involves making a publicly available repository of historical images captured from the webcams in given time periods. Other Achievements: 12 Among 28 news articles specifically profiling aspects of this work. Venues include Scientific American, CBS News, ABC News, Newsweek, USA Today, and NPR. Notes 12 See quantitative assessments for more details. Previous | Next Related links: Latanya Sweeney's CV Latanya Sweeney's Home Page Data Privacy Lab