Five-College Speaker Series on Information Assurance
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Jessica Staddon
Palo Alto Research Center
Privacy support for e-commerce and information retrieval
December 5, 2005
3:30pm-4:30pm
Room 151, Computer Science Research Bldg. |
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Abstract:
User demand for privacy is difficult to characterize. The potential for privacy infringement quickly produces "big brother" concerns from some, yet examples abound of the readiness with which others trade privacy for very little. That is, privacy concerns seem to vary considerably based on the individual and the situation. Complicating this is the fact that in settings in which privacy is a concern, providing privacy has the clear potential of getting in the way of what the involved parties want to do. In this talk, I'll discuss 3 settings falling in the broad areas of content distribution, database security and Internet broadcasting, in which a case can be made for privacy-enhancing technology as either serving a user need, supporting legislative requirements or enabling a new application. I'll describe a privacy-enhancing technology that supports each setting and I'll highlight some of the many open areas. This talk covers joint work with Rob Johnson, Lea Kissner and David Woodruff.
Biography:
Jessica Staddon specializes in applied cryptography. Her past work
includes protocols for secure group communication, including broadcast
encryption and traitor tracing. Most recently she has focused on
designing algorithms that enable privacy-preserving data management
systems. Jessica serves on the editorial boards of the International
Journal of Information and Computer Security and the Journal of Computer
Security. She is the manager of PARC's security research group and
received her PhD in Mathematics from U. C. Berkeley in 1997.
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