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Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

State Policies and the US Election Franchise: A Multistage Approach

Brodnax, NaLette, Ji Su Yoo, and Latanya Sweeney. "State Policies and the US Election Franchise: A Multistage Approach." American Political Science Association Preprints, April 15, 2022.

Privacy Risks of Sharing Data from Environmental Health Studies

Boronow, Katherine E., Laura J. Perovich, Latanya Sweeney, Ji Su Yoo, Ruthann A. Rudel, Phil Brown, and Julia Green Brody. "Privacy Risks of Sharing Data from Environmental Health Studies." Environmental Health Perspectives 128.1 (January 2020).

Saying it’s Anonymous Doesn't Make It So: Re-identifications of “anonymized” law school data

Sweeney, Latanya, Michael von Loewenfeldt, and Melissa Perry. "Saying it’s Anonymous Doesn't Make It So: Re-identifications of “anonymized” law school data." Technology Science (November 2018).

Risks to Patient Privacy: A Re-identification of Patients in Maine and Vermont Statewide Hospital Data

Yoo, Ji Su, Alexandra Thaler, Latanya Sweeney, and Jinyan Zang. "Risks to Patient Privacy: A Re-identification of Patients in Maine and Vermont Statewide Hospital Data." Technology Science (October 2018).

Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Release Using Deep Learning

Nazmiye Ceren Abay, Yan Zhou, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bhavani Thuraisingham, and Latanya Sweeney. "Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Release Using Deep Learning." Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2018): 510-526.

Voter Identity Theft: Submitting Changes to Voter Registrations Online to Disrupt Elections

Sweeney, Latanya, Ji Su Yoo, and Jinyan Zang. "Voter Identity Theft: Submitting Changes to Voter Registrations Online to Disrupt Elections." Technology Science (September 2017).

Re-identification Risks in HIPAA Safe Harbor Data: A study of data from one environmental health study

Sweeney, Latanya, Ji Su Yoo, Laura Perovich, Katherine E. Boronow, Phil Brown, and Julia Green Brody. "Re-identification Risks in HIPAA Safe Harbor Data: A study of data from one environmental health study." Technology Science (August 2017).

Practical Differentially Private Modeling of Human Movement Data

Roy, Harichandan, Murat Kantarcioglu, and Latanya Sweeney. "Practical Differentially Private Modeling of Human Movement Data." 30th IFIP Annual Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), July 2016.

Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps

Zang, Jinyan, Krysta Dummit, James Graves, Paul Lisker, and Latanya Sweeney. "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps." Technology Science (October 2015).

Sharing Sensitive Data with Confidence: The Datatags System

Sweeney, Latanya, Mercè Crosas, and Michael Bar-Sinai. "Sharing Sensitive Data with Confidence: The Datatags System." Technology Science (October 2015).

Only You, Your Doctor, and Many Others May Know

Sweeney, Latanya. "Only You, Your Doctor, and Many Others May Know." Technology Science (September 2015).

De-Anonymizing South Korean Resident Registration Numbers Shared in Prescription Data

Sweeney, Latanya and Ji Su Yoo. "De-Anonymizing South Korean Resident Registration Numbers Shared in Prescription Data." Technology Science (September 2015).

Automating Open Science for Big Data

Crosas, Mercè, Gary King, James Honaker, and Latanya Sweeney. "Automating Open Science for Big Data." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 659 (May 2015).

Putting Health IT on the Path to Success

Yasnoff, William, Latanya Sweeney, and Edward Shortliffe. "Putting Health IT on the Path to Success." Journal of the American Medical Association 309.10 (March 2013).

Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery

Sweeney, Latanya. "Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery." Communications of the ACM 56.5 (2013): 44-54.

Adaptive Gaussian Process for Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting

Jiang, Xiaoqian, Bing Dong, Le Xie, and Latanya Sweeney. "Adaptive Gaussian Process for Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting." The 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2010.

Face De-Identification

Gross, Ralph, Latanya Sweeney, Jeffrey Cohn, Fernando de la Torre, and Simon Baker. "Face De-Identification." Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance. Ed. Andrew Senior. Springer, 2009.

Managing End-of-Life Care in Complex Patients Can Reduce Costs Without Shortening Life

Sweeney, Latanya, Andrew Halpert, and Joan Waranoff. "Managing End-of-Life Care in Complex Patients Can Reduce Costs Without Shortening Life." American Journal of Managed Care (February 2007): 84-92.

Protecting Job Seekers from Identity Theft

Sweeney, Latanya. "Protecting Job Seekers from Identity Theft." IEEE Internet Computing 10.2 (March 2006).

Privacy-Enhanced Linking

Sweeney, Latanya. "Privacy-Enhanced Linking." ACM SIGKDD Explorations 7.2 (December 2005).

Privacy-Preserving Surveillance Using Selective Revelation

Sweeney, Latanya. "Privacy-Preserving Surveillance Using Selective Revelation." IEEE Intelligent Systems (Sept-Oct 2005).

Preserving Privacy by De-Identifying Facial Images

Newton, Elaine M., Latanya Sweeney, and Bradley Malin. "Preserving Privacy by De-Identifying Facial Images." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 17.2 (February 2005): 232-243.

Navigating Computer Science Research Through Waves of Privacy Concerns: Discussions among Computer Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University

Sweeney, Latanya. "Navigating Computer Science Research Through Waves of Privacy Concerns: Discussions among Computer Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University." ACM Computers and Society 34.1 (April 2004).

Finding Lists of People on the Web

Sweeney, Latanya. "Finding Lists of People on the Web." ACM Computers and Society 34.1 (April 2004).

How (Not) to Protect Genomic Data Privacy in a Distributed Network: Using Trail Re-identification to Evaluate and Design Anonymity Protection Systems

Bradley Malin and Latanya Sweeney. "How (Not) to Protect Genomic Data Privacy in a Distributed Network: Using Trail Re-identification to Evaluate and Design Anonymity Protection Systems." Journal of Biomedical Informatics 37.3 (2004): 179-192.

K-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy

Sweeney, Latanya. "K-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy." International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems 10.5 (2002): 557-570.

Achieving k-Anonymity Privacy Protection Using Generalization and Suppression

Sweeney, Latanya. "Achieving k-Anonymity Privacy Protection Using Generalization and Suppression." International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems 10.5 (2002): 571-588.

Inferring Genotype from Clinical Phenotype through a Knowledge Based Algorithm

Malin, Bradley and Latanya Sweeney. "Inferring Genotype from Clinical Phenotype through a Knowledge Based Algorithm." Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002 (2002).

Information Explosion

Sweeney, Latanya. "Information Explosion." Confidentiality, Disclosure, and Data Access: Theory and Practical Applications for Statistical Agencies. Ed. Pat Doyle, Julia Lane, J.M. Theeuwes, and Laura Zayatz. Elsevier Science, 2001.

Datafly: A System for Providing Anonymity in Medical Data

Sweeney, Latanya. "Datafly: A System for Providing Anonymity in Medical Data." Database Security, XI: Status and Prospects. Ed. T. Lin and S. Qian. Elsevier Science, 1998.

Weaving Technology and Privacy Together to Maintain Confidentiality

Sweeney, Latanya. "Weaving Technology and Privacy Together to Maintain Confidentiality." Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 25 (1997): 98-110.

Replacing Personally-Identifying Information in Medical Records, the Scrub System

Sweeney, Latanya. "Replacing Personally-Identifying Information in Medical Records, the Scrub System." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (1996): 333-337.

Computer Guide

Sweeney, Latanya. Computer Guide. CESS Publishing, 1983.