Daily Archives: February 17, 2009

I wrote a few months ago about how research in differential privacy seems very applicable to global public health. There is a new report from the Institute of Medicine which calls for a new approach to protecting privacy in health research, Beyond the HIPAA privacy rule. The Lancet also has an editorial about the report, which is what made me think that I should pass this reference on to theoretical privacy researchers. Lancet’s summary: Continue reading →