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...
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 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 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will provide $248,675 to Georgetown University to develop methods for integrating legal and technical approaches to privacy in sociotechnical software systems. The researchers will establish technical interpretations of legal privacy concepts that can be incorporated into system design, analysis, and verification. They will also develop paradigms for translating technical...
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 $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...
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) was awarded a $200,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026. Under this award, ICSI will measure, validate and improve privacy labels for mobile applications. The organization will study how these labels currently work for app developers, app store administrators and end users, and analyze mobile...
This $100,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research to understand the impact of privacy interventions on the online publishing ecosystem. The three-year award to the New Jersey Institute of Technology will support studies of how publishers comply with and implement privacy regulations, how users respond to new privacy tools, and the effects on user engagement, publisher revenues from online advertising, and...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $249,527 to Pomona College to conduct collaborative research evaluating the effectiveness of data fiduciary privacy laws. The research aims to predict how online services would change under alternative privacy law frameworks, in order to inform the development of privacy laws that can better uphold societal values. The project will employ qualitative and user-focused...