Protecting Persons While Protecting the People: Second Annual Workshop on Information Privacy and National Security, ISIPS 2008, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 12, 2008. Revised Selected Papers

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by  Paul B. Kantor, Michael E. Lesk (auth.), Cecilia S. Gal, Michael E. Lesk (eds.)

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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Stanford University, CA, USA
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Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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University of Bern, Switzerland
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Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
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University of Dortmund, Germany
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Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Gerhard Weikum
Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
Cecilia S. Gal Paul B. Kantor
Michael E. Lesk (Eds.)
Protecting Persons
While Protecting
the People
Second Annual Workshop
on Information Privacy and National Security, ISIPS 2008
New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 12, 2008
Revised Selected Papers
13
Volume Editors
Cecilia S. Gal
Paul B. Kantor
Michael E. Lesk
Rutgers University
School of Communication and Information
New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Preface
The Second Annual Workshop on Privacy and Security, organized by the Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security of the School of Com-
munication and Information at Rutgers University, was held on May 12, 2008 at the
Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
A few of the papers in this volume were produced through a multi-step process.
First, we recorded the talk given by each author at the workshop in May 2008. Next,
we transcribed the recording. The authors then produced a draft of their paper from
these transcriptions, refining each draft until the final version. Although the papers are
not verbatim transcriptions of the talks given, some do retain the informal and conver-
sational quality of the presentations. In one instance we have included some material
from the question-and-answer period after the talk, since the material covered proved
to be relevant and interesting. The majority of authors, however, preferred to include a
more formal paper based on the material presented at the workshop.
A few notes about language and conventions used in the book. Since some of the
authors in this volume come from different parts of the globe we have tried to preserve
their native cadences in the English versions of their papers. And finally, a few papers
have pictures from screen captures of illustrations or graphics created for computer
displays. Although every effort was made to include the highest quality pictures so
they would reproduce well in print, in some instances these pictures may not repro-
duce as well as might be desired, and we beg the reader’s indulgence.
We wanted to thank Rutgers University for their support for the ISIPS Program,
DyDAn for sponsoring the workshop and SPARTA, Inc. for their generous contribu-
tion for the workshop bags and nametags. We also wanted to thank our many review-
ers for help in the paper selection process and the Program Committee for help with
the initial direction and planning of the workshop.

May 2009 Cecilia S. Gal
Organization
Conference Co-chairs
Paul B. Kantor Rutgers University, USA
Michael E. Lesk Rutgers University, USA
Naftaly Minsky Rutgers University, USA
Reviewers
Yigal Arens University of Southern California, USA
Antonio Badia University of Louisville, USA
Hsinchun Chen The University of Arizona, USA
Gordon Cormack University of Waterloo, Canada
Dennis Egan Telcordia Technologies, USA
Stephen Fienberg Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mark Goldberg Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Jim Horning SPARTA, Inc., USA
Leslie Kennedy Rutgers University, USA
Moshe Koppel Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Ivan Koychev Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Don Kraft Louisiana State University, USA
Carl Landwehr IARPA, USA
Janusz Luks GROM Group, Poland
Antonio Sanfilippo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Joshua Sinai The Analysis Corporation, USA
David Skillicorn Queen's University, Canada
Rebecca Wright Rutgers University, USA
Program Committee
Yaakov Amidror Lander Institute, Israel
Yigal Arens University of Southern California, USA
Antonio Badia University of Louisville, USA
Maureen Baginski SPARTA, Inc., USA
Arthur Becker IARPA, USA
Michael Blair SAIC, USA
Endre Boros Rutgers University, USA
Yigal Carmon MEMRI, USA
Hsinchun Chen University of Arizona, USA
Gordon Cormack University of Waterloo, Canada
George Cybenko Dartmouth College, USA
V III Organization
Timothy Edgar ODNI, USA
Dennis Egan Telcordia Technologies, USA
Yuval Elovici Deutsche Telekom Research Laboratories at
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Stephen Fienberg Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Uwe Glaesser Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mark Goldberg Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Vladimir Golubev Computer Crime Research Center, Ukraine
David Grossman Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Jim Horning SPARTA, Inc., USA
Leslie Kennedy Rutgers University, USA
Joseph Kielman U.S. Department of Homeland Security, USA
Moshe Koppel Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Ivan Koychev Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Don Kraft Louisiana State University, USA
Carl Landwehr IARPA, USA
Mark Levene Birkbeck University of London, UK
Janusz Luks GROM Group, Poland
Richard Mammone Rutgers University, USA
Joan McNamara Los Angeles Police Department, USA
Rafail Ostrovsky University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Gerhard Paass Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and
Information Systems, Germany
Warren Powell Princeton University, USA
Fred Roberts Rutgers University, USA
Antonio Sanfilippo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Bracha Shapira Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Andrew Silke University of East London, UK
Joshua Sinai The Analysis Corporation, USA
David Skillicorn Queen's University, Canada
Eugene Spafford Purdue University, USA
Gary Strong Johns Hopkins University, USA
Rebecca Wright Rutgers University, USA
Stefan Wrobel Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and
Information Systems, Germany
Daniel Zeng University of Arizona, USA
Conference Coordinator
Cecilia S. Gal
Conference Sponsors
Rutgers University, ISIPS, DyDAn, SPARTA Inc.
Table of Contents
The Challenges of Seeking Security While Respecting Privacy . . . . . . . . . 1
Paul B. Kantor and Michael E. Lesk
Section One: Statement of the Problem
Intelligence Policy and the Science of Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Maureen Baginski
Cyber Security: Assessing Our Vulnerabilities and Developing an
Effective Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Eugene H. Spafford
Intelligence, Dataveillance, and Information Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Robyn R. Mace
Results of Workshops on Privacy Protection Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Carl Landwehr
Words Matter: Privacy, Security, and Related Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
James J. Horning
Section Two: Theoretical Approaches to the Problem
kACTUS 2: Privacy Preserving in Classification Tasks Using
k-Anonymity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Slava Kisilevich, Yuval Elovici, Bracha Shapira, and Lior Rokach
Valid Statistical Analysis for Logistic Regression with Multiple
Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Stephen E. Fienberg, Yuval Nardi, and Aleksandra B. Slavkovi´c
Section Three: Practical Approaches to the Problem
Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Joan T. McNamara
Stable Statistics of the Blogograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Mark Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Stephen Kelley, and
Konstantin Mertsalov
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Privacy-Preserving Accountable Accuracy Management Systems
(PAAMS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Roshan K. Thomas, Ravi Sandhu, Elisa Bertino,
Budak Arpinar, and Shouhuai Xu
On the Statistical Dependency of Identity Theft on Demographics . . . . . . 122
Giovanni Di Crescenzo
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
The Challenges of Seeking Security While Respecting
Privacy
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prying eyes. Other physical techniques such as the wax seal with a special imprint,
or the use of invisible inks attest to the importance of maintaining the privacy of
communication.
With the founding of the United States and the establishment of the postal service
this requirement of privacy was written deeply into the fabric of American civiliza-
tion. It has adapted, as modes of communication have changed to deal with the tele-
gram, and then the telephone. It is adapting, with some difficulty to the era of email.
Email must pass through many intermediary “hands”. Many employers, such as our
own university, claim a legal right to all the email that we place on our servers, al-
though they assure us that they would not look at it save for the gravest of reasons.
All such stored records are subject to subpoena by the courts on proper authorization.
With the advent of Voice Over IP, telephonic communications also travel through
the internet, sliced into many packets and perhaps traveling across the ocean and back
on their way from New York to Baltimore. Thus the opportunities for prying hands to
read the mail are growing exponentially.
All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy if we are sending a message
that says nothing more than “mom is feeling better and we hope you can drop by for
coffee in the afternoon”. Unless, of course this is pre-agreed code meaning “get the
explosives and meet me in the basement of the World Trade Center”.
This volume contains selected papers written to extend remarks presented at a
workshop on privacy and security, sponsored by Rutgers University, the Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Privacy and Security (ISIPS), the Department
of Homeland Security Center for Dynamic Data Analysis (DyDAn), and SPARTA.
At the time of the workshop, May 2008, it was clear from a cursory glance at the
media, that in the United States there was a strong and growing concern regarding the
tensions between programs aimed at protecting the security of citizens, and programs
or policies aimed at protecting the privacy of those same citizens. There was a sense
among many concerned observers that the United States had fallen behind the Euro-
pean Union, in the protection of individual privacy. There was also a general sense,
particularly following the attacks in the United States in 2001, in Madrid in 2004, and
in London in 2005, that the North American and European community faced a sus-
tained threat from a very diffuse organization whose primary symbolic center might
be located in Al Qaeda.
The wheels of public concern turn in unpredictable ways. For example, one of the
presenters shared with workshop participants the ACLU Pizza Video clip. That clip,
which appears (at the time of this writing) on the website of the American Civil Liber-
ties Union, was posted as a campaign message against the policies of the United
States Administration at the time (President G. W. Bush). The video, which remains
an engaging and insightful comment on the threats to privacy, is preserved at the
Internet Archive [3]. Since the time at which the workshop was held, there has been a
national election in the United States, with substantial changes in the composition of
the Congress, and a new President in the White House. At the same time, the world
economy has experienced a decline, which is being compared to the most difficult
recessions of the preceding 40 years. The spotlight of media and public interest there-
fore seems to have moved away from the themes of this conference.
However, it takes little reflection to realize that these themes remain as important
as they ever were. In addition, there is no evidence that significant progress has been