Help Keep Big Data Safe by Entering NIST’s ‘Unlinkable Data Challenge’ | NIST

Help Keep Big Data Safe by Entering NIST’s ‘Unlinkable Data Challenge’ | NIST

Help Keep Big Data Safe by Entering NIST’s ‘Unlinkable Data Challenge’

NIST is announcing the Unlinkable Data Challenge, created to help the public safety community conduct research using data gathered with personal digital devices and taken from large databases such as driver’s license and health care records. Much of this data includes personal information that can be used to identify its source. Exposing this data risks those individuals’ privacy, but the inability to share it impedes research in many fields, including thwarting crime, fighting fires and slowing the spread of epidemics.

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