Dear all,
we are glad to announce the second appointment with the course of
lectures entitled "COLISEUM - COntributed Lectures on Information
Security Using Maths"
http://ricerca.mat.uniroma3.it/users/security/index.html
The lectures, held by PhD Students and Professors, focus on real
problems of information security and privacy and on their interaction
with mathematics.
The course is scheduled on a fortnightly basis, with a talk taking
place every two weeks, on Tuesday, at 12.00pm in lecture room 311 of
the Maths Dept. of Roma Tre University
http://goo.gl/maps/GQohN
The details of the second talk follow.
Date: Tuesday November 6 2012, 12:00pm
Duration: 45 minutes approx.
Venue: Dipartimento di Matematica di Roma Tre,
Largo San Leonardo Murialdo, 1,
Third Floor, Lecture Room n. 311
http://goo.gl/maps/GQohN
SPEAKER: Agusti Solanas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
TITLE: Privacy vs. Knowledge: Two opposite rights.
ABSTRACT: Privacy is a fundamental right recognized by the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. However, it has become usual to endanger
privacy for the sake of knowledge and security. In this talk we will
elaborate
on the necessary equilibrium between the right of people to privacy
and the right of the society to knowledge and security. To do so, we
will consider two case studies: (i) Location Based-Services and, (ii)
Statistical Data and Statistical Disclosure Control.
- Location-Based Services (LBS) can be accessed from a variety of
mobile devices to obtain value added information related to the
location of the user. In many cases, these LBS are provided by
untrusted parties. Thus, users might compromise their location privacy
to obtain value added services. In this regard, we will introduce the
concept of W3-Privacy and we will show several techniques to protect
the privacy of LBS users.
- The amount of data collected by statistical agencies, governments
and private companies is growing steadily. With the use of innovative
techniques for big data analysis (e.g. Artificial Intelligence)
unprecedented amounts of private information could be revealed. We
will show how statistical disclosure control (SDC) aims at reducing
the privacy risks of citizens, Internet users, and the like.
SHORT BIO: Agusti Solanas (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, 1980) is a
researcher at the CRISES Research Group and the UNESCO Chair in Data
Privacy and a tenure-track lecturer in the Department of Computer
Science and Mathematics at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) of
Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees
in Computer Engineering from URV in 2002 and 2004, respectively, the
latter with honors (i.e. Outstanding Graduation Award). He received a
Diploma of Advanced Studies (Master) in Telematics Engineering from
the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2006. He received a
Ph.D. in Telematics Engineering from the Technical University of
Catalonia in 2007 with honors (A cum laude). His fields of activity
are data privacy, data security and artificial intelligence,
specifically, clustering and evolutionary computation. He has
participated in several European, Spanish and Catalan-funded research
projects. He has authored over 60 publications and he has delivered
several talks. He has served as chair, programme committee member and
reviewer in several conferences and journals. He is a member of
several scientific organizations such as the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM). He is also a member of the IEEE GOLD (Graduates Of
the Last Decade) and he volunteers as editorial assistant for the IEEE
GOLDRush Newsletter. Currently he is a member of the board of the IEEE
Spain Section.
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