Protecting Privacy in the Age of Open Data

Though crucial to psychologists, when released publicly, demographic information can jeopardize participants’ anonymity and expose sensitive information about them. Why? Because even a few demographic attributes can uniquely identify an individual. Learn about the risk of re-identification and become familiar with open-access software as a way to boost the privacy of open datasets.

Presented by: Kirsten Morehouse, Harvard University; Benedek Kurdi, Yale University