The New York Times reports on a new privacy-focused project by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Counter to the post-9/11 Total Information Awareness program that was eventually shuttered, "Brandeis" aims to cultivate technology for protecting individual privacy. DARPA Program Director John Launchbury, a cryptographer and computer scientist, said, "Privacy is a key enabler to things we care desperately about, like democracy and innovation." DARPA is looking to collaborate with leading researchers and entrepreneurs and expects the project to last approximately four-and-a-half years, with a budget in the "tens of millions of dollars." The early-stage research efforts DARPA will support include advanced cryptography, multiparty differential privacy and artificial intelligence for predicting an individual's privacy preferences. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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