Trust :: Data
Developing privacy-preserving identity systems and safe distributed computation, enabling an Internet of Trusted Data.
Developing privacy-preserving identity systems and safe distributed computation, enabling an Internet of Trusted Data.
Get a copy of our new book, including contributions from the UN, World Economic Forum, and White House Cybersecurity Initiative: Trust::Data: A New Framework for Identity and Data Sharing
The Trust::Data Consortium addresses the growing tension between societal data proliferation and data security by developing specifications, software, tools and documentation that help organizations adopt a holistic approach to cyber protection. Trust::Data is building new models for digital identity, data provenance, universal access, and secure privacy-preserving transactions to harness the future potential of global data sharing.
The mission of The Trust::Data Consortium is to create open source tools and services that foster the development of a secure internet-based network of trusted data.
With the emergence of massive global data ecosystems, The Trust::Data Consortium aims to provide people, organizations, and computers the ability to manage access to their data more securely, efficiently and equitably, while protecting personal data from incursion and corruption. As we have moved from the analog world to the digital world, our data, security and governance systems have not kept pace. It has created numerous issues ranging from data insecurity (such as the large-scale government and private sector data losses of recent years) to a widening digital divide between rich and poor, including the global disenfranchisement of over 1.5 billion people who lack legal identity.
Evolving from the 25-year history of MIT Kerberos in MIT’s famous Project Athena, Trust::Data continues the MIT tradition of solving difficult problems facing society today and in the future, and providing open source solutions, free to the world.
Alex “Sandy” Pentland is founding faculty director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, which uses network science to access and change real-world human behavior, and is the Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts,…
Stephen serves as the Executive Director of the Connection Science and Human Dynamics programs at MIT, and is the key management lead, with responsibility for managing a team of faculty, staff and students,…
Thomas Hardjono is the CTO of MIT Connection Science and Engineering. He leads technical projects and initiatives around identity, security and privacy in emerging technologies such as IoT, smart contracts and blockchain systems, and…