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Bar Ilan University


Background. Balancing between the individual’s need for privacy and the public’s right to know is an age-old concern. In the current “information age”, the pendulum has swung to the worse for privacy, with unprecedented amounts of sensitive private information being accumulated, stored, and not always well protected, by both government agencies and commercial entities. Some governments have set rules aimed at protecting privacy, but it is not yet clear how effective these are. The science of cryptography can offer technologies that may aid in protecting privacy, but their use must be guided by sound public policy.


Goal. This workshop is aimed at bringing together researches and opinion leaders from the cryptographic science and from the public administration – to further our ability to provide viable solutions to the growing need for privacy.

Where: Bar Ilan University, Beck Auditorium

When: Thursday, April 26, 9:00-15:45

Registration. Participation is free, but please register by April 21st at: privacy.datamining@gmail.com
Participation for registered attendees includes lunch.
If you plan on coming with your private car, please include license plate number for free parking.

Sponsorship. The workshop is sponsored, in part, by a Ministry of Science grant on “Privacy Preserving Data Mining” ("Infrastructure Grant").

Organizers. Yonatan Aumann (BIU), Yehuda Lindell (BIU), Tal Zarsky (Haifa)

Program (titles are not final).

9:00-9:30: Registration. Coffee and refreshments.
9:30-9:40:

Greetings
Prof. Mina Teicher – Chief Scientist, The Ministry of Science
Prof. Joseph Menis – Rector, Bar Ilan University

9:40–10:00:

Dr. Tal Zarsky (Law, Haifa University) –
Privacy in the Digital Age: a Birdseye View

10:00-10:30:

Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (Computer Science, MIT and Weizmann) -
Program Obfuscation: Can it be done?

10:30-11:00:

Prof. Moni Naor (Computer Science, Weizmann) -
Proofs of Honest Behavior while Preserving Anonymity

11:00-11:30:

Break

11:30-12:00:

Dr. Kobbi Nissim (Computer Science, Ben Gurion University) -
A Rigorous Approach to Defining Privacy

12:00-12:30:

Prof. Yuval Yishai (Computer Science, Technion) -
Evaluating Branching Programs on Encrypted Data

12:30-13:00:

Advocate Avner Pinchuk (Association of Civil Right in Israel) -
The Public Struggle for Privacy in Theory and Practice

13:00-14:15:

Lunch

14:15-14:45:

Advocate Yoram Hacohen (Head of the Law, Information and
Technology Authority, Ministry of Justice, State of Israel) -

Privacy and Data Mining: the Regulatory Perspective and the
Legal Infrastructure

14:45-15:15:

Dr. Benny Pinkas (Computer Science, Haifa University) -
Highly Efficient Secure Computation and Applications to
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining

15:15-15:45:

Prof. Yonatan Aumann (Computer Science, Bar Ilan University) -
Covert Adversaries and Secure Multiparty Computation