EAGER: Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy

数字和移动技术的快速发展同时也在侵蚀个人隐私，并产生了对日益安全的系统的永久需求，安全和隐私之间的社会、经济和技术关系发生了40年来的重大根本性变化。记录和保存先驱们的历史的时间已经不多了，他们将隐私和安全转变为相互关联、必不可少且利润丰厚的企业。这个项目旨在记录和永久保存这些先驱者的历史，通过进行和出版30个研究级口述历史，这些口述历史将永久保存在查尔斯·巴贝奇计算、信息和文化研究所(CBI)。将被记录的口述历史通过考察塑造学术和工业领域的技术、政策和社会因素，确定了当今塑造隐私和安全的交叉力量。这项研究为未来隐私和安全历史的研究创造了一个长期的基础设施，该项目将通过发布采访并将其永久存档在CBI的在线数据库和实物馆藏中来实现这一目标，CBI是计算机历史上世界领先的档案。此外，一本书将综合这项研究，目标是高度可访问和结构化，作为许多领域的课程文本广泛使用-包括历史、社会学、计算机科学、STS、社会信息学、传播学和法律研究-以及吸引普通受过教育的读者。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Rapid evolution of digital and mobile technologies is simultaneously eroding personal privacy and creating a permanent need for increasingly secure systems, with major underlying shifts in the social, economic, and technical relationships between security and privacy that have been unfolding for four decades. Time is running out to record and preserve the histories of the pioneers who transformed privacy and security into interconnected, essential, and highly profitable ventures. This project aims to record and permanently preserve these pioneers’ histories by conducting and publishing thirty research-grade oral histories that will be permanently archived at the Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information, & Culture (CBI). The oral histories that will be recorded identify the intersectional forces that have shaped privacy and security today, by examining the technical, policy, and societal factors that have shaped the academic and industrial fields. The research creates a long-term infrastructure for future research in the history of privacy and security, which the project will achieve by publishing and permanently archiving the interviews at the online databases and physical holdings of CBI, world’s leading archive in the history of computing. Additionally, a book will synthesize the research, with a goal of being highly accessible and structured for widespread use as a course text in many fields—including history, sociology, computer science, STS, social informatics, communication, and legal studies—as well as to appeal to the general educated reader.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.