PORTIA

The Portia Project (Privacy, Obligations, and Rights in Technologies of Information Assessment)is a project focuses on both the technical challenges of handling sensitive data and the policy and legal issues facing data subjects, data owners, and data users.

Portia is a project of The Applied Crypto Group that is a part of the Security Lab at Stanford University.

It is a five-year, multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary, multi-modal project that looks comprehensively at sensitive data in a networked world. There will be two main academic centers of activity (Yale and Stanford), three smaller-scale academic participants (Stevens Institute of Technology, NYU, and the University of New Mexico), and substantial participation by non-academic partners, including technology companies, (IBM, HP, and Microsoft) representatives of user communities (Citigroup, NIH, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, the Census Bureau, and the Secret Service), and DC-based policy organizations (CDT and EPIC).

They have made 3 workshops on cryptography, sensitive data and privacy-datamining.

There are available software to proctect privacy publications and talks.