Bits | With ‘Brandeis’ Project, Darpa Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology With ‘Brandeis’ Project, Darpa Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology The Pentagon’s advanced research arm is pursing privacy technology. And to be an all-seeing digital surveillance system to hunt for terrorists. The outcry from privacy advocates prompted Congress to shut it down. that safeguarding privacy was essential to individual freedom. learn and predict a person’s privacy preferences — a clever digital assistant for privacy protection. The latter would be a big change from the complex privacy settings on search engines and websites now, which be only a part of the answer to privacy challenges. So will an evolving Privacy Tech.