The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,703 Project Grant to the Trustees of Boston University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 to develop methods for integrating legal and technical approaches to privacy in the design of sociotechnical software systems. Specifically, the project aims to establish technical interpretations of legal privacy concepts that...
This three-year, $110,645 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), supports research into the implementation of privacy in software systems by software developers. The Stanford University research team will examine discussions among developers in response to new privacy regulations and laws, related code updates in public repositories, and developer reactions to...
This $100,000 three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support the co-design of legal and computer science approaches to privacy in sociotechnical software systems at Harvard University. Led by President and Fellows of Harvard College, the interdisciplinary team will develop accountability frameworks integrating legally and mathematically sound privacy principles. They will establish technical interpretations of...
This three-year, $439,355 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research into the impact of new privacy regulations on software development practices. The International Computer Science Institute will lead a collaborative effort to study how software developers discuss and implement privacy requirements from evolving laws and regulations. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,999 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to assess the relationship between privacy regulations and software development, with the goal of improving rulemaking and compliance. The grant, funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will support a multidisciplinary research effort combining legal and engineering expertise. The key products and services to be...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $199,076 Project Grant to the FPF Education And Innovation Foundation for collaborative research titled "A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Resource to Advance Technical and Legal Understanding of Textual Privacy Information." The three-year award runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant will support the development of a...
This $163,132 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports an interdisciplinary research project investigating privacy negotiation behaviors among stakeholders in smart environments. The project team at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) is designing, developing, and deploying an interactive system to collect real-world data on how people manage and negotiate their...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), supports a collaborative research project focused on developing novel approaches to enable participatory privacy protections for AI training data. The $826,361 award to Georgetown University, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, aims to create methods and best practices to navigate the tradeoffs between data...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year grant will support the development of a large-scale, longitudinal resource to advance technical and legal understanding of textual privacy information. The University of Michigan will serve as the primary awardee, with the project expected to...
This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) with a period of performance from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research by a team of legal and engineering experts at The Johns Hopkins University to develop an automatic framework using machine learning and program analysis techniques to systematically...