Ttile: Progress on the PORTIA Project
Speaker: Prof. Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University 
Host: S. Muthukrishnan
Details: Mar 21, 11-12, Core A. 

Abstract:

Increasing use of computers and networks in business, government,
recreation, and almost all aspects of daily life has led to a proliferation
of online sensitive data, i.e., data that, if used improperly, can harm the
data subjects, data owners, data users, or other relevant parties. As a
result, concern about the ownership, control, privacy, and accuracy of these
data has become a top priority. PORTIA (http://crypto.stanford.edu/portia/)
is a large-ITR project focused on both the technical challenges of handling
sensitive data and the policy and legal issues facing data subjects, data
owners, and data users. The project has been in operation since Oct 2003.
This talk, suitable both for a Computer Science audience and for a "Society
and Technology" audience, will survey some of the progress and some of the
remaining open questions in the PORTIA project. 

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