{"id":8776,"date":"2018-06-15T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:53","slug":"u-m-researchers-striving-to-keep-confidential-data-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/15\/u-m-researchers-striving-to-keep-confidential-data-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M researchers strive to keep confidential data safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_900\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-900\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg\" alt=\"3d text 'data' with closed chain on the background of hexadecimal data.\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015-193x140.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/depositphotos.com\/search\/9417488-s-2015.html\">nasirkhan\/depositphotos)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVirtually all human activity in the modern world creates digital traces. It is our responsibility to ensure that the resulting data is protected and managed responsibly,\u201d said <strong>Margaret Levenstein<\/strong>, director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the U-M Institute for Social Research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Levenstein is leading a project team working to create a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/u-m-researchers-building-system-to-keep-confidential-data-in-trustworthy-hands\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">System of Digital Identities of Access<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that provides dataset access to only people who possess a Researcher Passport. The Researcher Passport will address the vetting processes put in place by the U.S. Census Bureau, ICPSR, and others, verifying the credentials of the researcher. A data access visa would then be provided, which is a system that will enable data custodians to grant access to restricted data.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pilot of this system is scheduled to debut fall of 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVirtually all human activity in the modern world creates digital traces. It is our responsibility to ensure that the resulting data is protected and managed responsibly,\u201d said Margaret Levenstein, director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the U-M Institute for Social Research. Levenstein is leading a project team working to create a \u201cSystem of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/15\/u-m-researchers-striving-to-keep-confidential-data-safe\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,121,130],"class_list":["post-8776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-data","tag-privacy","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg",500,363,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015-150x109.jpg",150,109,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015-193x140.jpg",193,140,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg",500,363,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg",500,363,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg",500,363,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg",500,363,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015-500x300.jpg",500,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg",500,363,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Depositphotos_9417488_s-2015.jpg",344,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Samantha DeRosia, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/srderosi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\u201cVirtually all human activity in the modern world creates digital traces. 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