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With 'brandeis' Project, DARPA Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program Brandeis is aimed at shielding individual privacy, according to the program's director.
Credit: Military Aerospace
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) new "Brandeis" program seeks to shield individual privacy instead of infringing on it, according to program director John Launchbury.
Brandeis was showcased at last week's DARPA conference in St. Louis in an effort to entice top researchers and entrepreneurs to work with the agency. DARPA has pledged to back early-stage research in areas such as advanced cryptography, multiparty differential privacy, and machine-learning software that can learn and anticipate a person's privacy preferences.
Launchbury says the exchange of data for everyone's benefit can only happen in an environment of trust where "you feel so in control of your data that you enable greater sharing at your discretion."
Launchbury also disputes the argument that empowering people to limit access to their digital footprint could undermine many ad-based Internet companies' business models. "It would be a matter of, you can use this data for these purposes in exchange for a set of free services," he notes. "At least then it's a negotiation."
DARPA has organized a roster of companies and universities that are participating in Brandeis, and Launchbury says the project will run over four and a half years with a budget of "tens of millions of dollars."
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