10.11. To Learn MoreOne mark of the degree of interest in a topic is whether entire workshops and conferences address it. The Computers Freedom and Privacy conference has been held annually since 1991 (see http://www.cfp.org/). Other conferences focus on narrower topics, such as data mining or privacy of elections. Professional societies such as ACM, IEEE, and SIAM sponsor these conferences and promote them regularly on their web sites. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University challenges his students to explore novel attacks and protections for privacy. Because of his work in the security of electronic voting, he is in charge of a National Science Foundation project to improve the reliability and trustworthiness of electronic voting. The Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, of which Rubin is Technical Director, has produced several good studies of privacy vulnerabilities. Annie Antón of North Carolina State University has developed tools to analyze privacy policies. She collaborates with ThePrivacyPlace.Org, an interdisciplinary research activity including researchers at Georgia Tech, the CERIAS group at Purdue University, and the University of Lugano. |