The Project

The goals of IARPA's Automatic Privacy Protection program are to "develop and demonstrate practical, sound automated methods for the use of private information retrieval techniques in Intelligence Community systems, to automatically protect the private data of untargeted individuals, to assure that mandated policies are enforced, and to enable more effective interagency and intergovernmental data sharing for improved security."

The governemnt, through IARPA, is funding four research teams to develop innovative new techniques for practical private information retrieval (PIR) and one team to develop techniques for monitoring queries for policy assurance.

UCI Team

Stanislaw Jarecki, Gene Tsudik (Principal Investigators).
Emiliano De Cristofaro, Xiaomin Liu, Yanbin Lu.

Funding Grants

This project is supported by the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity under grant: FA8750-09-2-0071.