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Data Privacy Lab

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Data Privacy Labis a program dedicated to teaching and research in areas related to privacy technology. The Data Privacy Lab inHarvard Universityis operating in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).Latanya Sweeneyfounded the Lab and continues as its Director.[1]The program was first started in 2001 atCarnegie Mellon Universityin theHeinz College,replacing the Center for Basic Research in the Social Science. In 2002 it moved to theSchool of Computer Science,where it operated until 2011 before moving to Harvard.The University of North Carolina at Charlotteis also running a Data Privacy Lab program and it is functioning in the College of Computing and Informatics.[2]

Some of the projects currently underway in the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard School are related tore-identification,discriminationinonline ads,privacy-enhanced linking, fingerprint capture, genomic privacy and complex-care patients.[3][4]The Data Privacy Lab atThe University of North Carolina at Charlotteconducts research in various areas like privacy preserving data mining, privacy issues in social networks, privacy aware database generation for software testing and privacy and anonymity in data integration and dissemination.[2]

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  1. ^"About Data Privacy Lab".Harvard University.Retrieved19 January2014.
  2. ^ab"Data Privacy Lab".The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Archived fromthe originalon 1 February 2014.Retrieved19 January2014.
  3. ^"Research Projects".Data Privacy Lab.Retrieved19 January2014.
  4. ^"Harvard's Data Privacy Lab Launching HRB".Patient Privacy Rights. Archived fromthe originalon 2014-02-01.Retrieved19 January2014.