Anil Madhavapeddy

Confidential carbon commuting: exploring a privacy-sensitive architecture for incentivising 'greener' commuting / Apr 2012

Paper on our use of data lockers within Cambridge to incentivise more green commuting patterns. This work with Chris Elsmore, Ian Leslie, and Amir Chaudhry explored building a privacy-sensitive architecture for measuring employee travel-to-work carbon footprints. Rather than centralizing location data, we built a distributed system where individuals record fine-grained location information in personal data containers they control, trading portions of data to the organization in exchange for benefits. We piloted this on Cambridge's cloud service, demonstrating how to transform private information into public good with minimal privacy loss.