Human and Societal Aspects of Security and Privacy

Human and Societal Aspects of Security and Privacy groups the computing pioneers in this atlas whose central, explicitly stated contribution is protecting individuals' personal data and studying the social, legal, and technical dimensions of privacy, rather than cryptographic algorithm design or operational systems defense. Members include the inventors of formal privacy models such as k-anonymity and differential privacy, researchers whose stated work centers on data privacy in mobile, healthcare, and sensor systems, and technologists who built early anonymity-preserving internet services such as anonymous remailers. The group corresponds to the Human and Societal Aspects of Security and Privacy subarea of the ACM Computing Classification System's Security and Privacy area, distinguishing privacy-centered pioneers from this atlas's separate Applied Cryptography and Systems Security groups within the same pioneer subcategory.