The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) announced it will award more than $4.7 million to four research projects at Waterloo. Professor Ian Goldberg of the Cheriton School of Computer Science will receive funding to support research about Privacy Enhancing Technologies at a Global Scale.
Privacy-enhancing technologies, or PETs, allow people around the world to maintain control over who gets to learn what they are looking up, with whom they are conversing, and what they are reading. This project will experiment on three particularly important classes of PETs. Private information retrieval keeps private the information about what a person is looking up in a database. Anonymous communications networks allow people to use the Internet without automatically revealing their identities or locations. Censorship resistance empowers people around the world to decide for themselves what information they would like to read online.
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