Mission Statement: The electronic storage and sharing of data about individuals and organizations underlies many computational applications, from banking to economic planning to the efficient implementation and delivery of health care. As this storage and sharing is often done automatically at speeds that prohibit direct human supervision, it is critical that these operations are performed in a manner that best resolves the frequently conflicting requirements of the privacy of the individuals described by the data, the needs of the users of the data, and the laws of the juristications in which these operations take place. The aim of our group is to develop theory, algorithms, and software solutions for dealing with these problems.

Ed Brown, PhD, LLB Faculty, MUN CS Software Design, Intellectual Property, Privacy Law brown@cs.mun.ca		Todd Wareham, PhD Faculty, MUN CS Algorithm Design, Computational Complexity
Khandaker Ahamed, BSc BSch student, MUN CS Heuristic Algorithms for Data Anonymization		Neil Barrett, BSc MSc student, MUN CS Algorithms for Multi-Database Record Linkage
Rhonda Chaytor, BSc MSc student, MUN CS Utility-Preserving Data Anonymization		Dwayne Hart, BSc Systems Administrator, MUN Math Fault-Tolerant Anonymization Strategies for Distributed Databases
Neil Lucas, BSc MSc student, MUN CS User-Guided Data Anonymization		Syed Naqvi, BSch MSc student, MUN CS Anonymization Strategies for Statistical Databases
Ray Wadman, BSc MSc student, MUN CS Multiple-Release Data Anonymization

• Gerard Farrell, MD
  Assistant Professor (Family Medicine)
  Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Steve Benteau, BComm, MASc
  Project Manager, Population Therapeutics Research Group
  Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Don MacDonald, BSc, MSc, PhD (in progress)
  Director, Research and Development Division
  Newfoundland and Labrador Center for Health Information (NLCHI)
• Kevin Fleming, BComm, MBA
  President, Plato Group Inc. (developers, Camoflague data masking software)

• Effective strategies for linking medical databases via shared fields (MacDonald)[Barrett, Brown, Lucas, Wareham]
• Effective strategies for assessing the anonymity of very large databases (Fleming)[Ahamed, Brown, Lucas, Wareham]

• NLCHI Privacy Homepage
• CMU Data Privacy Lab
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
• On The Identity Trail: Understanding the importance and impact of Anonymity and Authentication in a Networked Society
• PrivacyInfo.ca