-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Privacy vs. Machine Learning (Forum in Dresden Sept 21/22) Datum: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:38:19 +0200 Von: Thorsten Strufe strufe.pub@GOOGLEMAIL.COM Antwort an: Thorsten Strufe strufe.pub@GOOGLEMAIL.COM An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

Hi everybody,

considering the improvements and ubiquity of machine learning applications, and the impact they (may) have on the privacy of individuals, we want to bring together people interested in either of the two sides, here in Dresden on Sept 21/22 2015 ( http://www.prinf.eu ).

To ignite discussions, we see two (rather obvious) topics, that we think are important and interesting: 1) considering all the public personal data by all sorts of people, we wonder how good */inference attacks/* can actually get, even on people who don't publish (a lot of) information about themselves - directly related of course is the question, if we can find new */privacy metrics,/* and - if there are ways to encounter such attacks, without diminishing the utility for the users (too much). And

2) on a related note we want to further explore ideas towards */privacy-preserving recommenders/*.

We will organize this event as a "traditional" scientific workshop soliciting submissions, which will be reviewed and subsequently published, to make it easier for the academic audiences to convince their funding entity of its importance ;-) - but we really mainly want to engage in discussions, may be fostering some future collaborations, as well.

I'm attaching the usual Call for Papers - and I hope, of course, that we will receive some interesting submissions (to make the official part interesting - so help in advertising is appreciated). We will accept both novel scientific contributions, but also datasets and replication studies. But most importantly, we hope to attract a broad audience of interested participants from different professional backgrounds, to facilitate great discussions!

Thanks a lot!

Ulf & Thorsten