Paul FrancisThe Joint Statement on Contact Tracing is IrresponsibleOn April 19, an open statement titled “Joint Statement on Contact Tracing”, signed by several hundred researchers, was released. The…Apr 21, 20202Apr 21, 20202
Paul FrancisTracking Covid-19 privately: Let’s at least use the tools we haveNational Data Protection Authorities need to pave the way for private Covid-19 data sharing between companies and governments. This…Apr 20, 2020Apr 20, 2020
Paul FrancisDifferential Privacy: Not a complete disaster, I guessIn January of this year I wrote the article Dear Differential Privacy, Put Up or Shut Up. In that story I examined the release of a…Apr 12, 2020Apr 12, 2020
Paul FrancisA Music Time MachineI recently created nearly 80 Spotify playlists containing the top 40 USA hits from 1941 to the present. The idea is to listen to them in…Mar 16, 2020Mar 16, 2020
Paul FrancisDear Differential Privacy, Put Up or Shut UpIn July of 2018 I learned from this article that the Social Science One / Facebook partnership would be using Differential Privacy as the…Jan 9, 20201Jan 9, 20201