Program at a glance

  • 9:00-9:30 Opening session
  • 9:30-10:30 GeoPKDD showcase session: the convergence of mobility, data mining and privacy: highlights from the GeoPKDD EU project.
  • 11:00-13:00 Invited lectures - session 1: perspectives from multiple disciplines.
  • 14:00-16:00 Invited lectures - session 2: perspectives from multiple disciplines.
  • 16:30-18:00 Panel: Is it possible to analyze geographically referenced data while guaranteeing the anonymity of the data subjects? Positions from panelists, audience feedback, discussion.


Detailed program

09:00-09:30 Opening session

  • Giovanni Buttarelli, Italian Data Protection Commmission, Secretary General
  • Paul Hearn, European Commission, Future and Emerging Technologies
  • Francesco Beltrame, Italian National Research Council, ICT Department, Director
  • Luciano Modica, Vice Secretary of State for Research and Higher Education

Session chair: Franco Turini, Univ. Pisa

09:30-10:30 GeoPKDD showcase session

  • Fosca Giannotti, KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy (GeoPKDD coordinator). Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: a vision of convergence
  • Dino Pedreschi, KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy. Mining useful knowledge from anonymous mobility data
  • Franco Turini, KDD Lab, Univ. Pisa, Italy. Fostering the interdisciplinary dialogue through the GeoPKDD Privacy Observatory

Session chair: Giusella Finocchiaro, Univ. Bologna.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Invited lectures - session 1

  • Giusella Finocchiaro, Univ. Bologna, Italy. The right to anonymity
  • J. (Sjaak) Nouwt, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, The Netherlands. Reasonable expectations of geoprivacy
  • Anne Uteck, Faculty of Law, Univ. Ottawa, Canada. Spatial privacy in a networked society
  • Andreas Mitrakas, ENISA, European Network and Information Security Agency. Pseudonyms in eID: an assumed identity?

Session chair: Yucel Saygin, Sabanci Univ., Istanbul

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 Invited lectures - session 2

  • Christopher W. Clifton, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, Indiana, U.S. Information metrics for privacy and anonymity in spatiotemporal data
  • Marius Thériault, Centre for Research in Regional Planning and Development, Université Laval, Québec, Canada. Tracking and surveying mobility of people: ethical and equity issues through political challenges
  • Stan Matwin, School of Information Technology and Engineering,Univ. Ottawa, Canada. Data privacy: lessons from economics
  • Josep Domingo-Ferrer, UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Catalonia. Combining trust and privacy in car-generated announcements over vehicular ad hoc networks

Session chair: Erkay Savas, Sabanci Univ., Istanbul

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Panel discussion

  • Giovanni Buttarelli, Italian Data Protection Commmission, Secretary General
  • Guido Rey, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
  • Paolo Zocchi, Italian Ministry of Regional and Local Administrations
  • Bettina Berendt, Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Panel chair: Dino Pedreschi, Univ. Pisa, Italy

18:00 End of workshop