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Duncan, G., Elliot, M. J. and Salazar, J. J. (2011) Statistical Confidentiality, Springer Verlag, New York
Mc Cullagh, K. 'Chapter 6 - Cloud Computing,' in Wild, C., Weinstein, S., MacEwan, N. & Geach, N. (2011) Electronic & Mobile Commerce: An analysis of crime, finance, media and trade in the digital age. Uni. of Hertfordshire Press.
Mc Cullagh, K. (2011) The prosecution of a whistleblowing blogger: Public interest v Private data, 26th Annual Conference of the British & Irish Law, Education & and Technology Association, Manchester Metropolitan University, (11/12 April 2011)
Mackey, E. and Elliot, M. (2011) End Game: Can Game Theory Help Us Explain How a Statistical Disclosure Might Occur and Play Out? CCSR Paper 2011-02:
Elliot, M. J., Lomax, S., Mackey, E. and Purdam, K. (2010) 'Data Environment Analysis and the Key Variable Mapping System'. In Domingo-Ferrer, J. and Magkos, E. (eds) Privacy in Statistical Databases. Springer; Berlin
Mc Cullagh, K. (2010) G-Cloud: Legal Storms forecast, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference (UWE)
Mac Sithigh, D. & Mc Cullagh, K. (2010) RIPA v HRA: An Analysis of Kennedy v UK, Ten years on: A Multi-perspective Evaluation of the Human Rights Act, Salford Human Rights Conference 2010
Mc Cullagh, K. (2009) "Protecting 'privacy' through control of 'personal' data processing: A flawed approach" International Review of Law Computers & Technology, Vol. 23, Nos. 1-2, 47-58
Mc Cullagh, K. (2009) "IP addresses and personal data: K.U. v Finland," Data Protection Quarterly, Issue 22 January 2009
Elliot, M. J and Purdam, K. and Smith, D. (2008) Statistical Disclosure Control Architectures for Patient Records in Biomedical Information Systems The Journal of Bioinformatics. 41, pp 58-64
Elliot, M. J. (2008) Using Targeted Perturbation of Microdata to Protect Against Intelligent Linkage Proceedings of UNECE work session on Statistical Confidentiality, Manchester, December 2007.
Mc Cullagh, K. (2008) "Blogging: Self Presentation and Privacy" Information and Communications Technology Law 17, 1, 3-23.
McCullagh, K. (2008) "What is 'private' data?" 23rd Annual British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA) Conference, (Glasgow).
Smith D. and Elliot, M. J. (2008) A measure of risk for tables of counts. Proceedings of UNECE worksession on Statistical Confidentiality, Manchester, December 2007.
Purdam, K. and Elliot, M. J (2007) 'Analysis of Information Loss: a Case Study Using UK Census Data' Environment and Planning A.
Elliot, M. J. (2007) Confidentiality, privacy and disclosure in health data: a 20th century problem needing a 21st century solution?. Proceedings of Exploiting Existing Data For Health Research, St Andrews; September 2007
Mc Cullagh, K (2007) "Data Sensitivity: proposals for resolving the conundrum" - Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology, 2, 4, 190-201
Mc Cullagh, K. (2007) "A study of Privacy in the Blogosphere" - Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference (Durham)
Mc Cullagh, K (2007) "Data protection: resolving the sensitivity conundrum" - 22nd Annual British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA) Conference (Hertfordshire)
Mc Cullagh, K. (2007) "Blogs: a Privacy Perspective" - Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference (Kent)
McCullagh, K (2006) "A study of data protection: harmonisation or confusion?" 21st Annual BILETA Conference "Globalisation and Harmonisation in Technology Law"
Elliot, M. J. Mayes, K, Manning, A, Haglin, D and Gurd, J. (2006) A computational method for solving the combinatorial explosiveness of the special uniques detection problem. Proceedings of Privacy in Statistical databases 2006. Rome December 2006
Elliot, M. J., Purdam, K., and Smith, D. (2006) "Patient Record Data: Disclosure Control for Grid Based Data Access" Proceedings of National centre for e-social Science Conference, Manchester, June 2006.
Mayes, K; Elliot, M. J., Manning, A; Haglin, D; Gurd, JR (2006) A distributed search infrastructure for Statistical Disclosure Control Proceedings of National centre for e-social Science Conference Manchester. With
Smith, D. (2006) An evaluation of strategies for matching population and sample units, International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Elliot, M. J., (2005)
An overview of Statistical Disclosure Control.
Paper presented to RSS Social Statistics Committee conference
on Linking survey and administrative data and statistical disclosure control. London; May 2005.
Elliot, M. J. , (2005)
Developments in statistical disclosure control.Paper presented to Census: Present and Future, Leicester; November 2005
Elliot, M. J., (2005)
The Clinical e-Science Framework: An Example of Remote
Data Access
Paper presented to CS-Statistics Workshop On Privacy and Confidentiality, Bertinoro, July
2005
Elliot, M. J. , (2005)
Statistical Confidentiality. Paper presented to Agenda Setting Workshop on Confidentiality and ethical issues in the
scientific usage of clinical and administrative data. Colchester; April 2005
Elliot, M. J., and Purdam, K. (2005)
Disclosure Control and Data Quality. Proceedings of the Conference of the International Statistical Institute. Sydney, April
2005.
Elliot, M. J., Purdam, K., Pickles, S. and Smith, D. (2005)
Disclosure risk and Grid Computing. Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Nottingham 2005
Elliot, M J., Purdam, K and Smith, D. (2005)
Confidential Data Access via the Grid: an outline of the issues and possible
solutions
Proceedings of 1st International Conference for e-Social Science, Manchester, May 2005
Elliot, M. J., Manning, A., Mayes, K. and Bane, M. (2005)
SUDA: a program for identifying and grading special uniques.
Proceedings of UNECE worksession of statistical Confidentiality, Geneva, November 2005
Elliot, M. J., Purdam, K, and Smith D. (2005)
Data Monitoring, grid computing and
Confidentiality
Paper presented to International Symposium on Confidentiality and Privacy, Manchester, May
2005
Purdam, K., Elliot, M., Pickles, S. and Smith, D. (2005)
Disclosure Control and the Development of Grid Computing
New Review of Information Networking, March, 2005
Tranmer M, Pickles A, Fieldhouse E, Elliot M. J., Dale A. Brown M. Martin D. Steel D. and
Gardiner C (2005)
Microdata for small areas Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A) 168, part 1, pp 29-49
Manning A. M. and Haglin, D. J. (2005)
A new algorithm for finding Minimal Sample Uniques for use in
Statistical Disclosure Assessment. Paper presented at the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, New Orleans,
Louisiana, U.S.A., November 27-30, 2005.
Elliot, M.; Purdam, K; Pickles, S; Smith, D. (2005) Disclosure risk and grid computing, UK e-Science All Hands Meeting Nottingham.
McCullagh, K. (2005) "Identity information: the tension between privacy and the societal benefits associated with biometric database surveillance" - 20th BILETA Conference: "Over-Commoditised; Over-Centralised; Over-Observed: the New Digital Legal World?" (Belfast)
Smith, D.; Elliot, M. (2005) An Experiment in Naive Bayesian Record Linkage, 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute Sydney, Australia.
Smith, D.; Elliot, M. (2005) Aspects of naive Bayesian Record Linkage, CCSR Occasional Paper.
Elliot, M. J. and Manning, A. (2004) A Special Uniques Analysis of the Labour Force Survey.
Report to the Office for National Statistics. January 2004.
Elliot, M. J., Purdam, K., and Smith, D. (2004),
'Confidentiality and the Grid'
Paper presented to the 1st National
e-Social Science Centre all hands meeting, July 2004, Manchester.
Elliot, M. J., Pickles, S., Purdam, K., and Smith,
D. (2004), 'Disclosure issues posed by the Grid
Paper presented
to the 1st National e-Social Science Centre all hands meeting, July
2004, Manchester.
Elliot, M. J. (2004). 'Statistical Disclosure Control',
In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement'. New York: Elsevier.
Leith, P. & Mc Cullagh, K. (2004) "Developing European Legal Information Markets based on Government Information"
International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 12, 3, 247-281
Mc Cullagh, K. (2004) "September 11th Security concerns: the threat to Internet Privacy" Ethicomp 2004: Challenges for the
Citizen of the Information Society (Syros, Greece)
Elliot, M. J. and Manning, A. (2003)
A Special Uniques Analysis on the 1991 SARs Report to the Office for National Statistics. August 2003
Elliot, M. J. and Purdam, K. (2003)
'Data Quality and Disclosure Control' International Statistics Institute Conterence, Berlin 2003
Elliot, M. J., Smith, D., and Mackey, E. (2003)
'Disclosure Control for Neighbourhood Statistics'
Paper presented to Workshop on Threats and opportunities for Labour Market Statistics,
Manchester, May 2003.
Manning, A. and Elliot, M. J. (2003)
'Applying disclosure control to temporal data'
Proceedings of Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research Conference,
Washington DC, November 2003
Purdam, K., Mackey, E. and Elliot, M.
'Whose data is it? Personal Data and Privacy' Paper presented to British Sociology Association Annual Conference, York, 2003
Purdam, K., Mackey, E. and Elliot, M. (2003)
'Personal Data, Privacy and the 2001 UK Census'
Proceedings of International Conference for the Development of the Information Society
Conference,
Lisbon, Portugal, June 2003
Purdam, K. and Elliot, M. J.(2003)
'Analysis of Information Loss: a Case Study from a UK Survey'
Proceedings of Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology
(FCSM) Research Conference, Washington DC, USA, November 2003
Purdam, K. and Elliot, M. J. (2003)
Confidentiality and disclosure risks associated with Grid enabling datasets
In Cole, K. Schurer, K., Beedham, H. and Hewitt, T (eds) Grid Enabling Quantitative
Social Science Datasets- A Scoping Study, Economic and Social Research Council
Purdam, K.(2003)
Privacy and Confidentiality and the 2001 Census Collection of Historical and
Contemporary Census Data
Online Teaching Summary
Purdam, K. and Elliot, M. J. (2003)
A Case Study of the Impact of
Statistical Disclosure Control on Data Quality in the UK Samples of Anonymised Records
CASC project Report 5D2
Smith, D. and Elliot, M. J. (2003)
The IDRAPN project, Empirical Work Report to the Office for National Statistics. November 2003
Smith, D. and Elliot, M. J. (2003)
The IDRAPN project, Specification of Software. Report to the Office for National Statistics. November 2003
Leith, P. & Mc Cullagh, K. (2003) "Developing European Legal Information Markets Based on Government Information: First Findings from the Add-Wijzer Project" - 18th BILETA Conference: Controlling Information in the Online Environment (Greenwich)
Mc Cullagh, K. (2003) "E-democracy: potential for Political Revolution?" International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 11, 2, 149-161
Elliot, M. J. (2002)
An examination of the disclosure associated with the Labour Force Survey.
Report to the Office for National Statistics. April 2002
Elliot, M. J. (2002).
'Disclosure Risk Assessment'
In Zayatz, L. et al (eds), 'Confidentiality, Disclosure and Data Access', New York:
Elsevier
Elliot, M. J., Manning, A. M. and Ford, R. W.
'A Computational Algorithm for Handling the Special Uniques Problem'
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge Based Systems 5(10) (2002), pp
493-509
Purdam, K. and Elliot, M. J. (2002)
An evaluation of the availability of public
data sources which could
be used for identification purposes; A Europe wide perspective
CASC project Report 5D1
Skinner, C. J. and Elliot, M. J. (2002)
'A measure of disclosure risk for microdata', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, 64(4) pp 855-867
Dale, A. and Elliot, M. (2001)
'Proposals for the 2001 SARs: An assessment of disclosure risk' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A; 164(3) 1-21.
Elliot, M. (2001)
'Linking file and record level risk assessment' Inference Control in Statistical Databases (Ed. J. Domingo-Ferrer), Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science,
vol 2316, pp 126-134.
Elliot, M. J. and Manning, A (2001)
'The Identification of Special Uniques' Proceedings of Government Statistical Service Methodology Conference, London, June 2001.
Elliot, M. J. (2001)
'Data Intrusion Simulation: Advances and a Vision for the Future of Disclosure Control'
Statistical Journal of the United Nations 17, 1-9
Elliot, M, J, (2000)
'DIS: A New Approach to the Measurement of Statistical Disclosure Risk'
Risk Management: An International Journal 2(4)
Manning, Anna M. and Keane, John A. (2001).
`Data Allocation Algorithm for parallel association rule discovery'
5th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp413-420, PAKDD'01,
Hong Kong, April 2001
Smith D. (2001)
'The Efficient Propagation of Arbitrary Subsets of Beliefs in Discrete-Valued Bayesian Belief
Networks'
In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics,
Key West, 2001
Elliot, M, J, (2000)
'DIS: A new approach to the Measurement of Statistical Disclosure Risk'
International Journal of Risk Management, 2(4), 39-48
Elliot, M, J, (2000)
'Applying the Data Intrusion Simulation methodology to assess the disclosure risk impact
of SDL techniques on a microdata file' Report to the US Bureau of the Census
Elliot, M. J. (2000)
Applying the Data Intrusion Simulation methodology to assess the disclosure risk impact
of SDL techniques on a microdata file. Report to the US Bureau of the Census
Elliot, M, J, and Dale, A. (1999).
'Scenarios of attack: the data intruders perspective on statistical disclosure risk'
Netherlands Official Statistics 14, 6-10
Elliot, M, J, (1999)
DIS: Data Intrusion Simulation - a method of estimating the worst case disclosure risk
for a microdata file'. In Proceedings of an international symposium on linked
employee-employer records.
Washington: Bureau of the Census.
Elliot, M. J., Skinner, C. J., and Dale, A. (1998)
'Special Uniques, Random Uniques, and Sticky Populations: Some Counterintuitive
Effects of Geographical Detail on Disclosure Risk'
Research in Official Statistics 1(2), pp 53-67
Elliot, M. J. and Dale, A. (1998)
'Disclosure Risk for Microdata'. Report to the European Union ESP/204 62/DG III
Elliot, M. J. (1996).
'Attacks on Confidentiality using the Sample of Anonymised Records: an analysis'. In Proceedings
of the third international seminar on statistical confidentiality.
Bled, October 2000
