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Taking Measure

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Naomi Lefkovitz

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Naomi Lefkovitz is the senior privacy policy advisor in the NIST Information Technology Laboratory. She leads the privacy engineering program, which focuses on developing privacy risk management processes and integrating solutions for protecting individuals’ privacy into information technologies, including digital identity services, IoT, smart cities, big data, mobile and artificial intelligence. She also leads the development team for the NIST Privacy Framework.

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A Framework for Online Privacy

Naomi Lefkovitz
Online privacy is a growing concern. Companies are mining our personal information and preferences to sell us products and present us with other kinds of content that we will like. But as useful as