NEC has announced the commencement of joint research on anonymous authentication technologies with eight other international institutions, including France Telecom and Microsoft, to provide enhanced privacy services for smartphones.
NEC is joining a research consortium along with France Telecom, Microsoft and other enterprises, that is funded by the French National Research Agency (l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche), the ANR.
"NEC's advanced research on anonymous authentication technology predates its membership to the consortium, where it is the only Asia-based company contributing to these privacy protection efforts. We will continue to support research on technologies that protect privacy and security in order to offer a wide range of reliable products and services," said Kazue Sako, Research Fellow, Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation.
