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Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft Research automate privacy compliance for big data systems


May 21, 2014

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Web services companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft all make promises about how they will use personal information they gather. A team from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research has automated the method to ensure that large codebases are operating in compliance with those promises and has deployed a prototype automated system on the data analytics pipeline of Bing, Microsoft's search engine.Full Story

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