Facebook: Privacy Enhancing Technologies RFP

Areas of interest:

1. Applied Cryptography: Private authentication, Secure computation, E2E encryption, Practical implementation, Record linkage/matching, Economics of trust models
2. Data policies and compliance: Deletion, Automated understanding of privacy policies, Data flow and lineage, Information flow control (IFC), Programming languages, Privacy economics, Measurement, Scraping risk
3. Differential Privacy: Making differential privacy practical, Extension to database management systems, Efficient combination of DP with other PETs, Understanding differentially private releases, Differential privacy in deep learning,
4. Privacy in AI: Practical advancements for MPC-based model training, Extensions to on-device model training, Privacy leakage and attacks in deep learning, Post-training data deletion.

Funding: up to $100K. (Please contact Research Authority - 5% overhead)

https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/2021-privacy-enhancing-technologies-request-for-proposals/