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Privacy Engineering Program

The NIST Privacy Engineering Program’s (PEP) mission is to support the development of trustworthy information systems by applying measurement science and system engineering principles to the creation of frameworks, risk models, guidance, tools, and standards that protect privacy and, by extension, civil liberties.

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Read blog #8 on scalability challenges in privacy-preserving federated learning!
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See the Results of Our Deidentification Challenge!

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Resources

Explore the resources that NIST has developed to help organizations manage privacy risk.

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Contact

To provide feedback to NIST on this privacy engineering effort, please send an email to PrivacyEng [at] nist.gov (PrivacyEng[at]nist[dot]gov).

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