The Privacy R&D Interagency Working Group (IWG) coordinates Federal R&D aimed at preventing adverse privacy effects arising from information processing, including R&D of privacy-protecting information systems and standards. This R&D supports advances in large-scale data analytics that can improve healthcare, eliminate barriers to education and employment, and increase efficiencies in the transportation and financial sectors while minimizing risks to individual privacy and possible harms such as discrimination, loss of autonomy, and economic losses. The Privacy IWG reports investments to the Cyber Security and Privacy (CSP) Program Component Area.
Overview
The Privacy R&D Interagency Working Group (IWG) was formed in 2016 to coordinate Federal Privacy R&D across 14 participating agencies. Guided by the 2016 National Privacy Research Strategy, the IWG coordinates government investments in Privacy R&D preventing or mitigating adverse privacy effects arising from information processing. In addition, this R&D supports advances in large-scale data analytics that can improve healthcare, eliminate barriers to education and employment, and increase efficiencies in the transportation and financial sectors while minimizing risks to individual privacy and possible harms such as discrimination, loss of autonomy, and economic losses.
Strategic Priorities
- Understand Privacy Desires and Impacts.
- Develop System Design Methods that Incorporate Privacy Requirements and Controls.
- Develop techniques to ensure that information use is consistent with privacy rules.
- Develop solutions to enable user-driven controls and actions over data collection, use, and deletion.
- Develop solutions for minimizing privacy risks while maximizing utility of data analytics.
- Develop solutions for recovery from privacy violations.
Co-Chairs
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David Kuehn |
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Angela Robinson |
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Anna Squicciarini |
Technical Coordinator
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Olachi Onyewu |
Activities
- Fast Track Action Committee on Advancing Privacy Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics Roundtable Series, June 7, 9, and 10, 2022.
- Supporting and enhancing the NIST Privacy Engineering Collaboration Space.
Publications
- Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan, Cyber Security and Information Security IWG, NITRD, National Science & Technology Council. December 2019.
Resources and Reference Documents
- The NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management, NIST, January 2020.