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Science Council Approves Big-Data Privacy Report
Credit: Federal Computer Week
The President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) has released "Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective," a report on new ways to build privacy protections into information technology systems.
The report's authors back the routine, consistent use of encryption and other security technologies to protect personal data as it moves across networks. They also support boosting research and adding scale to some types of security protections that are now being implemented manually. Technology can help reduce privacy risks but policy is needed as well, says report co-author and University of California, Berkeley professor Susan Graham.
Although the PCAST brief did not include new policy recommendations, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is creating a privacy engineering framework analogous to its work on cybersecurity standards. Part of the problem is that policymakers do not have a framework for talking to engineers about privacy, and there is a lack of clarity about what is meant by privacy in a networked world. "We believe that technology alone can't reduce privacy risks," Graham says. "There has to be policy as well."
From Federal Computer Week
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