It is widely believed that homeland security agencies infringe on innocent citizens' privacy in order to carry out the war on terror. Advanced cryptographic techniques can enable complex data mining tasks, while preserving citizens' privacy by revealing the minimum information necessary. Understand the social and tecnhological battle between national security and Constitutional rights.

1. Private Data Mining and
Citizen’s Rights
Citizen s
Andrew Lindell
Chief Cryptographer Assistant Professor
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Bar-Ilan University
Andrew Lindell
Private Data Mining and Citizens’ Rights
April 29, 2008
The Information Explosion
• Huge databases exist in society today
– Government-collected data on citizens and
Government collected
non-citizens
– Medical data
– Consumer purchase data
– Census data
– Communication and media-related data
Andrew Lindell
Private Data Mining and Citizens’ Rights
April 29, 2008
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