A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working. The grant will help the researchers further their research, which includes work from computer scientists and linguists. The question of how well data anonymization works has become an important one in recent years as the volume of data collected by advertisers, merchants, Web sites and other companies has increased.
Source: https://threatpost.com/national-science-foundation-funds-purdue-data-anonymization-project-110210/74629/