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

数字和移动的技术的快速发展正在侵蚀个人隐私，并创造了对日益安全的系统的永久需求，四十年来安全和隐私之间的社会，经济和技术关系发生了重大变化。记录和保存先驱者的历史的时间已经不多了，这些先驱者将隐私和安全转变为相互关联的，必不可少的和高利润的企业。该项目旨在记录和永久保存这些先驱的历史，通过进行和出版30个研究级的口述历史，这些口述历史将在查尔斯巴贝奇计算，信息，文化研究所（CBI）永久存档。将被记录的口述历史确定了交叉的力量，塑造了今天的隐私和安全，通过检查的技术，政策和社会因素，塑造了学术和工业领域。 这项研究为未来的隐私和安全历史研究创造了一个长期的基础设施，该项目将通过在计算历史上世界领先的档案馆CBI的在线数据库和物理馆藏中发布和永久存档采访来实现。 此外，一本书将综合研究，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，通信，和法律的研究-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.