Emerging Technologies & Privacy: How Privacy Threat Modeling Can Help Manage Privacy Risks
On Wednesday, February 8, the Strauss Center hosted Cara Bloom, Senior Cybersecurity and Privacy Scientist at MITRE, for a talk on “Emerging Technologies & Privacy: How Privacy Threat Modeling Can Help Manage Privacy Risks.” This talk was held at the LBJ School of Public Affairs as part of the Strauss Center’s Brumley Speaker Series.
In her talk, Cara discussed how preserving privacy is not only a regulatory requirement, but an ethical obligation, a mission enabler, and a market differentiator. Given this, privacy can still be an ephemeral concept, lacking a solid definition, scope, and practical method for management.
She discussed how it is of particular importance to understand the potential privacy risks of emerging technologies and how they can be difficult to emulate and model, particularly when there are few established privacy norms for the new technology.
In her presentation, she took a risk-oriented view of privacy, discussing the differences between risk management and compliance.
She then concluded by looking forward to the emerging field of privacy threat modeling, with examples including smart cities.
Special thanks to Brumley Mentor Bart Huffman for moderating.
This event was free and open to the public. For more information on this event, contact Brittany Horton at brittany.horton@austin.utexas.edu.
Biography
Cara Bloom is a Senior Cybersecurity and Privacy Scientist at MITRE, a federally-funded research and development center, where she specializes in the intersection of emerging technologies and data protection. Cara currently leads initiatives on privacy threat modeling, measuring privacy expectations, and Smart City privacy.
Cara has provided privacy and cybersecurity expertise on comprehensive risk models, international data protection legislation, and autonomous and connected vehicle technology, and contributed to primary research on data de-identification and self-sovereign identity. She has presented at ACM, IEEE, and IAPP conferences, as well as the Federal Trade Commission’s Data Privacy Day Conference. Cara is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received her Master of Science in Information Security Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.