\documentclass[11pt]{article} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5truein} \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textheight}{9.0truein} \setlength{\headsep}{0.0truein} \setlength{\headheight}{0.0truein} \setlength{\topskip}{10.0pt} \setlength{\parskip}{5mm} \usepackage{url} \begin{document} \begin{center} \textbf{\textsc{STANFORD UNIVERSITY}}\\[5pt] \textbf{\textsc{DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS}}\\[5pt] \Large{\textbf\textsc{{DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR}}} \end{center} \begin{center} 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, April 18, 2006\\ Sequoia Hall Room 200\\ (Cookies at 3:45 in 1st Floor Lounge) \end{center} \begin{center} \textsl{ Cynthia Dwork }\\ Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley \end{center} \begin{center} \textbf{ A cryptographer's perspective on privacy-preserving\\ data mining and statistical disclosure control } \end{center} \noindent We revisit the problem of statistical disclosure control -- revealing accurate statistics about a population while preserving the privacy of individuals -- from a cryptographic perspective. \noindent We provide rigorous, well founded, definitions of privacy and explicit characterizations of the capabilities of the adversary. We then describe a powerful technique for achieving privacy while preserving utility of the data, together with impossibility results that guided its development. \end{document}