Excerpt: "Privacy and cybersecurity are often pitted against each other, but for years, officials have been working on a way to have both that seemed too good to be true. Going back to 2011 when the Obama administration issued a National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, the National Institute of Standards and Technology discussed the topic during an RSA Security Conference panel titled: 'Privacy-enhancing Technologies: Pipe Dream or Unfulfilled Promise?'
But more recently, observers such as Ellison Anne Williams, a former National Security Agency staffer who now leads the firm Enveil and spoke with Nextgov on the issue, exhort, 'it’s not magic, it’s just math.'"
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