Category: Events

Photo of people socializing at a reception at the Harvard Science and Engineering Complex

Continuing the Conversation: Mayana Pereira’s presentation and tutorial on Enhancing Open Data for Social Good

In this post, we will show a simple tutorial describing the process of adding differential privacy to the United States Broadband Usage Percentages Dataset. The tutorial will go through all steps of a data release project, from defining all data aggregations and computations in a non-private setting and identifying the points in the pipeline where data transformations, such as clamping, are necessary, all the way to implementing the data pipeline with the appropriate differential privacy mechanism using OpenDP….

2024 OpenDP Community Meeting – Recap and Survey

The 2024 OpenDP Community Meeting took place from August 22 to 23 at Harvard University. We joined forces with TPDP again this year, transitioning from the conference to the Community Meeting with an evening reception. Attendees reflected on the busy week of TPDP and greeted newcomers over appetizers and drinks in the Science and Engineering…

Join the Privacy Attacks & Auditing Working Group!

As part of the 2023 OpenDP Community Meeting, a breakout session centered around privacy attacks and auditing attracted leading experts in the room and online from industry, academia, non-profits, and government entities alike to share their perspectives on this new topic.  It was exciting to see broad recognition that attacks are and will continue to…

2023 OpenDP Community Meeting Recap

The 2023 OpenDP Community Meeting was held after the TPDP conference on Friday, September 29th at Harvard University. Kicking off the meeting, we held a welcome reception at the Science & Engineering Complex outdoor terrace where over seventy attendees got the opportunity to meet and start networking on the previous evening. Attendees enjoyed food and…