Principal Investigator Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Developing privacy-preserving identity systems and safe distributed computation, enabling an Internet of Trusted Data. The Trust::Data Consortium addresses the growing tension between societal data proliferation and data security by developing specifications, software, tools and documentation that help organizations adopt a holistic approach to cyber protection. Trust::Data is building new models for digital identity, data provenance, universal access, and secure privacy-preserving transactions to harness the future potential of global data sharing.
The MIT Trust Data Consortium has built and demonstrated pilot versions of such systems where members will gain privacy, transparency, and empowerment as to data use for their collective benefit.