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 can be incorporated into system design, analysis, and verification. It will also develop frameworks to translate technical privacy concepts for legal understanding and policymaking. Finally, the project seeks to develop "hybrid" concepts definable and evaluable by both legal and technical experts. The outcomes will include a practical legal-technological toolkit for designing accountable formal software systems and regulations aligned with privacy standards. While initially focused on privacy, the methods aim to support regulation-software alignment across domains.
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