[AISWorld] Contributing to the prospective National Privacy Research Strategy

[Heng Xu]

I am part of the NITRD National Privacy Research Forum Working Group and we recently published a Request for Information (RFI) for the prospective National Privacy Research Strategy: https://federalregister.gov/a/2014-22239 I will appreciate if you could share this RFI with those you think are interested in submitting to this RFI. Please consider submitting your own responses too (by October 17, 2014). Many thanks!

The NITRD National Privacy Research Forum Working Group seeks to establish objectives for research and a framework for organizing ideas to achieve the research purpose. Responders are asked to answer one or more of the following questions:

1. Privacy objectives: Describe one or more scenarios that illustrate a critical issue concerning privacy; describe what privacy problems arise in the scenario; describe why it is important to overcome the identified problems; describe the needed privacy and what capabilities are required to achieve it; and describe what barriers exist to achieving the needed privacy in the scenario. The use of particular domains in the scenario (e.g., healthcare, education, social media) to describe the desired privacy state is encouraged.

2. Assessment capabilities: Discuss concepts, methods, and constructs needed to assess privacy; discuss capabilities and models that can: Express privacy requirements, assess and quantify risks/benefits to privacy, evaluate effects of privacy risk mitigation, and determine the fulfillment of privacy requirements.

3. Multi-disciplinary approach: Discuss how privacy challenges and objectives might be framed to bring many disciplines (e.g., computer science, economics, social and behavioral sciences, and law disciplines) together to jointly and collaboratively work to both strengthen privacy and support innovation in cyberspace and information systems; discuss how diverse national/cultural perspectives on privacy can be accommodated.

4. Privacy architectures: (a) The WhiteHouse Big Data report recommends adoption of a "responsible use framework" that would provide greater focus on the use of data and hold entities that utilize data accountable for responsible use of the data. Describe an architecture implementing a "responsible use framework" incorporating the three questions above and taking into account issues as: Encoding privacy policies in machine-checkable forms and ensuring their compliance and auditability; managing the collection, retention, and dissemination of sensitive data; and ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data, while enabling desired uses of them. (b) Describe other privacy architectures that would be effective for the design and implementation of privacy-preserving information systems. (c) Describe technological advances that can change privacy perceptions and how those advances would be incorporated into the "responsible use framework" architecture or other architectures submitted for 4(b).

Page limitation: All submissions must be 20 pages or less. Comments can be submitted by any of the following methods:

(a) Email: nprs at nitrd.gov.
(b) Fax: (703) 292-9097, Attn: National Privacy Research Strategy.
(c) Mail: Attn: National Privacy Research Strategy, NCO, Suite II-405, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230.

Deadline for Submission under this RFI is October 17, 2014.

Best regards,

Dr. Heng Xu | Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology | The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | URL: http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/xu/

2013 - 2015:

Program Director | Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) & BIGDATA Program | Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences | U.S. National Science Foundation | Arlington, VA
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