Can Personal Privacy Coexist with National Security?
The urgent business of protecting the American people from terrorism and other threats will almost certainly follow a different course under the Obama administration. In particular, the security of electronic information supporting our most critical systems – for instance, financial, medical and civil infrastructure data – is likely to be defined by a stronger effort to reconcile the competing needs of public security, personal privacy and utility. At Berkeley Engineering, we are helping to resolve this challenge through our work with TRUST, the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies. TRUST is an NSF-funded Science and Technology Center, headquartered here at Berkeley under my directorship. We work with more than 100 researchers at seven additional U.S. universities to develop trustworthy information systems for the nation’s critical infrastructure. I recently spoke with Tom Temin of Federal News Radio about TRUST and the approach we are taking to balancing the concerns of
