NYU Human Project Data Security and Privacy Board Meeting

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be participating in New York University’s The Human Project privacy and security working group meeting to discuss solutions for the project. The Human Project is a wide-ranging, significant longitudinal human subjects research study that also crosses into new areas of big data research. WPF is pleased to be able to participate meaningfully in the foundational ethics and privacy issues in this groundbreaking project.

Meeting location: NYU

Date: Friday, Oct. 20, 2017.

The meeting is by invitation only, however, more information about The Human Research project is available here: The Human Project. The Human Project is an IRB-approved project under NYU.

More background on Kavli from thehumanproject.org:

“The HUMAN Project is a new tool for solving society’s toughest challenges today. That tool, our research platform formed by the data provided by our participants, can help advance research to understand what makes us well and what makes us ill by measuring the feedback mechanisms between biology, behavior, and our environment in the bio-behavioral complex.”

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