On May 1, 2018, NIST announced the Unlinkable Data Challenge to help the public conduct research using data gathered with personal digital devices and taken from large databases such as driver's license and health care records. Through the contest, NIST aims to identify ways to effectively "de-identify" personal information while maintaining the data's analytic value. The challenge will have three phases, and $190,000 of total prize money will be split among the winners of the phases.

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