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Our Quest: Advancing Product Labels to Help Consumers Consider Cybersecurity

February 16, 2022

Katerina Megas and Michael Ogata

For many decades, consumers have relied on labels to help them make decisions about which products to buy. Sometimes the labels make assertions about what ingredients or components the product uses.

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Help Celebrate Data Privacy Week & NIST Privacy Framework’s 2nd Birthday!

January 28, 2022

Naomi Lefkovitz

Today’s blog celebrates Data Privacy Week, an international awareness initiative led by the National Cyber Security Alliance to help spread awareness about online privacy. NIST is very proud to

Differential Privacy: Future Work & Open Challenges

January 24, 2022

Joseph Near and David Darais

In this series of blog posts, we have tried to give an accessible overview of the state-of-the-art in differential privacy. In this final post, we review some of the open challenges in the practical

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Hot Topics in Consumer Cybersecurity Labeling – Our December 2021 Workshop

January 12, 2022

Katerina Megas

On May 12, 2021 the White House released an Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity which, among other things, tasked NIST to develop cybersecurity criteria and labeling

How to deploy machine learning with differential privacy

December 21, 2021

Nicolas Papernot and Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

We are delighted to introduce the final guest authors in our blog series, Nicolas Papernot and Abhradeep Thakurta, research scientists at Google Brain, whose research explores applications of