The grant, for “trustworthy interaction in the cloud”, was awarded to BU, Brown and UC Irvine

The project supported by the NSF grant will address these [privacy] concerns by examining the feasibility of extending cloud service-level agreements to cover aspects such as integrity of outsourced services, information leakage control, and fair market pricing. The project also will explore mechanisms that verify trust-enhancing service-level agreements are being followed and develop “trustworthiness” guarantees and tradeoffs to cloud customers and system integrators that are both practical and useable.

It looks like an interesting project but I have to scratch my head and wonder about hyperbole in security when the “lead principal investigator” claims “significant benefit to our economy and society”. How will that be measured?