CPI Talk - Choosing Privacy in the Real World
YouTube Video of the talk is available here.
CPI would like to extend an invitation to our CPI Talk on Thursday Oct. 24 from 2:30 - 4:00pm, taking place virtually. A Teams link will be shared prior to the event for all registrants.
Speaker: Carlisle Adams - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
CPI Talks are free and open to everyone regardless of affiliation! High school students and non-Waterloo students/staff are also welcome to join.
No prior knowledge will be expected from the audience.
Please register here.
In this CPI Talk, Carlisle Adams will discuss:
Choosing Privacy in the Real World
Abstract:
Many of us recognize the value of privacy and have an intuitive understanding of some of the harms that can arise if our privacy is violated and our personal data is used by others without our knowledge or consent. But what can we do about this? In particular, how can we select the most appropriate technologies to protect our online privacy (especially given that there are so many privacy technologies to choose from)? This talk discusses a classification of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) that can help us to compare and contrast different schemes so that we may be better able to understand our specific privacy goals and therefore choose the technology or technologies that will best meet our needs.
Carlisle Adams is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Ottawa. Prior to his academic appointment in 2003, he worked for 13 years in industry (Nortel, Entrust) in the design and standardization of several cryptographic and security technologies for the Internet. His research interests and technical contributions span applied cryptography, security, and privacy, including the CAST family of symmetric encryption algorithms, secure protocols for PKI environments, access control in electronic networks, and privacy enhancing technologies. Dr. Adams is co-author of Understanding PKI: Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2003), and author of Introduction to Privacy Enhancing Technologies: A Classification-Based Approach to Understanding PETs (Springer, 2021).