The MIT Future of Data, Trust, and Privacy program will focus on expert collaboration in five technical areas: database systems, applied cryptography, AI and machine learning, data portability and new information architectures, and human-computer interaction.
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- The initiative will provide forums for MIT researchers, policymakers, and industry consortium members to discuss the latest research and policy implications.
- One of the initiative's goals is to reduce the time between the development of new software systems and new policies to deal with the technology, explained Daniel Weitzner, a founding director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative.
- MIT wants to work with industry in developing new privacy-preserving tools, Weitzner related.