#  Managing Privacy in Research Data Repositories 

 



After the Dataverse Community Meeting, a workshop focused on tools helping open repositories currently addressing sensitive or private data will be held at Harvard Medical School. This workshop is a collaboration between the Dataverse team and the [Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data](http://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/) group.

## July 13th

**See** [**Detailed Agenda**](/privacy-workshop-detailed-agenda)

**Room:** Cannon Room, Building C, Harvard Medical School

**10:30 - 10:45am Registration and Coffee**

**10:45 - 11:00am Welcome,** [**slides**](/file_url/144)  
[Salil Vadhan](http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/), Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

**11am - 12:30pm Panel Discussion on Privacy Risks**  
*Moderated by Salil Vadhan, Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University*

[**George Church**](http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/), Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of [PersonalGenomes.org](http://www.personalgenomes.org/)

[**Kobbi Nissim**](https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~kobbi/), Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University

[**Danny Weitzner**](https://www.csail.mit.edu/user/1283)**,** Principal Research Scientist, CSAIL, MIT

[**Danny Goroff**](http://www.sloan.org/about-the-foundation/staff-directory/show-staff/show/people/daniel-l-goroff/), VP and Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

**12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch break**

**1:30 - 3:30pm Solutions: Software Tools for Managing Privacy**  
*Moderated by Mercè Crosas, Chief Data Science and Technology Officer, IQSS, Harvard University*

**Data Handling Policies: Spaces, DataTags, and the Tags Language,** [**slides**](/file_url/143)  
[Michael Bar-Sinai](http://mbarsinai.com/)

**Robot Lawyers: Automating Legal Compliance for Transferring Private Data,** [**slides**](/file_url/142)  
[*Steve Chong*](http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~chong/)*, Associate Professor of Computer Science , Harvard University*

**PSI (Ψ): A Private data Sharing Interface,** [**slides**](/files/dcm2016/files/honakerpsi.pdf)  
[*James Honaker*](http://hona.kr)*, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard University*

**Web-based Multi-Party Computation with Application to Anonymous Aggregate Compensation Analytics**

[*Azer Bestavros*](http://azer.bestavros.net/)*, Professor of Computer Science, Boston University*

***A Software Architecture Proposal to facilitate Privacy Auditing in a confidential Data Enclave***  
*Cavan Capps, Big Data Lead, United States Census Bureau*

**3:30 - 4:00pm Coffee Break**

**4:00 - 5:00pm Panel Discussion on Managing Sensitive Data Use Cases**  
*Moderated by David O'Brien, Senior Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University*

***Barbara Brierer, MD.,** Faculty Co-Director, Multi-Regional Clinical Trials (MRCT) Center of Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital*  
*Director, Regulatory Foundations, Ethics and the Law Program, Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School*  
*Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician, Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital*

***Kaye Marz,** Research Associate II, National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP), Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research*

***Simson Garfinkel**, Senior Advisor, Information Access Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)*

**5:00 - 6:00pm Panel Discussion on International Data Flows**  
*Moderated by Deborah Hurley*

***Deborah Hurley,** Adjunct Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Brown University*

***Peter Doorn,** Director of Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)*

***David Heiner,** Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft Corporation,*[ *slides*](/file_url/145)

**6:00pm Concluding Remarks and Reception**