ToTS & TiP

Date: 

Monday, September 19, 2016, 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel K354
Re-Identification and the Right to Be Forgotten: a data driven study Data analysis can be an important tool for policy-makers to evaluate and propose policies for cyberspace governance. In this talk I take a quantitative approach to analyze the content that is being delisted by traditional media outlets (i.e., newspapers and broadcasters) as a consequence of the “Right to be Forgotten” policy. Specifically, I discuss a detailed data analysis of a number of delisted links and the corresponding articles. Based on the delisted links, it is possible to determine the names of requesters and perform a demographic analysis on these requesters. I also discuss possible data-driven attacks that “transparency activists” or other third parties could take to discover delisted links. Speaker: Virgilio Almeida is a full professor of the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His areas of research interest include large scale distributed system, Internet governance, social computing, autonomic computing and performance modeling and analysis. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, an MS in Computer Science, from the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro and a BS Electrical Engineering from UFMG, Brazil. He was a visiting professor at Boston University, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, Polytechnic Institute of NYU and held visiting appointments at Santa Fe Institute, Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratory and Xerox Research Center. He is a former National Secretary for Information Technology Policies of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil (2011 to 2015). He is the chair of the Brazilian Internet Governance Committee (CGI.br). He was the chair of NETmundial, Global Multistakeholder Conference on the Future of Internet Governance, that was held in Sao Paulo in 2014. He published over 150 technical papers and co-authored five books on performance modeling od computer systems, including "Performance By Design" (2004) "Capacity Planning for Web Services" (2002), and "Scaling for E-business" (2000) published by Prentice Hall. He has supervised more 50 PhD theses and MSc dissertations. Prof. Almeida is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He is currently a Visiting Professor at School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and a Fellow at Berkman Center for Internet & Society.