Briefs

For the next few years, Teresa Lunt, principal scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center in California, is expected to be on the front lines of the government's efforts to analyze the nation's commercial databases for potential terrorist activity while also protecting individuals' privacy.

She is the leader of one research project to be funded by the Defense Department's Information Awareness Office. Lunt's project aims to develop a "privacy firewall" that weeds out identifying information in searchable databases while providing government analysts with enough information to try to identify terrorists. The project was one of 26 chosen out of 180 proposals and is expected to receive about $1 million a year for the next three years.

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