New Approaches to Anonymisation

The overall aim of this workshop on anonymisation is to disseminate the latest advances in the area. There will be a significant number of leading scientists from the INI programme present but talks will be explicitly targeted at a broad audience of users who deal with personal data and are looking for ways to share those data.

The programme of talks will highlight developments in state-of-the-art approaches and techniques including:

• The Anonymisation Decision making Framework
• New developments in privacy models
• Advances in synthetic data production
• Penetration testing
• Designing anonymised data with detailed geography

It will also feature a session on end user perspectives which will include short talks from data holders in the transport, telecoms, finance, energy and health areas. The facilitated panel session will be a forum for questions and discussion around the challenges in the context of various applications with perspectives from both researchers and end-users. It will also afford an opportunity to identify and set the agenda for further common challenges for future research and collaboration. This event will be of interest to data practitioners from all sectors including:

• Government, policy makers, regulatory authorities and statisticians
• Commercial organisations in the financial, retail, telecommunications, transport, utilities and other data intensive environments
• App developers interested in developing anonymisation tools
• Data Science led start ups
• Biomedical and health researchers
• Social and economic researchers