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[Steve Olshansky <>]

Internet2 Awarded $1.84 Million Grant By NIST To Build Privacy Infrastructure 
and To Help Individuals Preserve Their Privacy

Partners include Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, University of Texas, and the University of Utah

Ann Arbor, Mich.—-Sept. 20, 2012—-Internet2 was awarded today a $1.84 million 
grant by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the 
first year of a two-year project to work with the research and education 
community to build privacy infrastructure and tools to help individuals 
preserve their privacy and strengthen the nation's identity ecosystem. 
Internet2's partners include the Carnegie Mellon and Brown University 
computer science departments, University of Texas, the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, and the University of Utah.

“This builds on our 10-year history of Internet2’s leadership providing 
federated identity services for universities. Privacy is a critical attribute 
of identity and a far-reaching concept, arising in many very different 
situations as users want to manage their privacy across several contexts – on 
campus and in business, as a citizen or consumer,” said Internet2 CEO & 
President Dave Lambert.  “All of these uses and applications require a 
consistent and robust privacy infrastructure in the nation’s identity 
ecosystem. We intend to build key elements of that infrastructure over the 
next two years and to work closely with the National Strategy for Trusted 
Identities in Cyberspace.”

The consistent and robust privacy infrastructure planned includes common 
attributes; user-effective privacy managers; anonymous credentials; 
Internet2's InCommon Identity Federation service; and encourages the use of 
multi-factor authentication and other technologies.

About Internet2

Internet2® is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the 
nation’s leading higher education institutions in 1996. Internet2, also known 
as the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, provides a 
collaborative environment for U.S. research and education organizations to 
solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in 
support of their educational, research, and community service missions. For 
more information, visit www.internet2.edu.

For media assistance, contact Todd Sedmak at 202-331-5373 or 
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