Extracting maximum value from data while protecting consumer privacy

Jason McFall

jason.mcfall@privitar.com

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

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https://tech.vijayp.ca/of-taxis-and-rainbows-f6bc289679a1#.jbjimbh1f

http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/

What are we doing at Privitar?

• Building privacy protection into Hadoop – we’re a spark application that runs on customers’ Hadoop clusters

• Building a product around the latest state of the art techniques, and driving collaborative industry/academic research

• Developing statistical approaches to protect privacy while preserving analytic power

• We’re a software product company, working mostly with banks and telcosinitially, but with far wider applications

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Credit: Highways Agency

Interested in working in this important area?

jobs@privitar.com

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