Overview
Medical Informatics
Scrub
Datafly
Genomic identifiability
Patient-centered management
Surveillance
Selective-revelation
Risk assessment server
PrivaMix
Biometrics
Contactless capture
Policy and Law
Identifiability of de-identified data
HIPAA assessments
Privacy-preserving surveillance
Policy and Law: Privacy-preserving surveillance
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Problem Statement: Given person-specific data from daily life and American jurisprudence, develop methods for data to be shared for surveillance purposes with guarantees of privacy protection.
Description: Dr. Sweeney's contributions have been solutions for specific uses (some list on upper left panel); see sample examples (a) through (d). As the volume of information collected on individuals increases [cite, cite], demand for sharing that data increases for national security, public health, marketing, and research purposes. It is easy to share data without attention to privacy or to use a face test (look anonymous), but it requires more work to provide scientific assurances. American jurisprudence distinguishes between identifiable data and non-identifiable data under the belief that anonymity insulates people from personal harm.
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| (a) Smart cameras report actions not raw images
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| (b) Network of data holders answer "How many?" [cite, cite] |
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| (c) Sliding scale architecture [cite] |
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| (d) Linking anonymous records across network
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Other Achievements: 12
- Testimony before a Federal Advisory Committee for DOD. Highly praised in report.
- Scientific American, Featured In-Depth Profile (rarely done). Among 28 news articles
profiling my work (over 300 news citations). Venues include CBS News, ABC News,
Newsweek, USA Today, and NPR.
- Funding from DARPA, NIH, and HUD. Patent filings.
Notes
| 12 | See quantitative assessments for more details. |
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