The Data Privacy Lab in Harvard University is operating in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).
Latanya Sweeney founded the Lab and continues as its director.
[1] The program was first started in 2001 at Carnegie Mellon University in the Heinz College, replacing the Center for Basic Research in the Social Science.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is also running a Data Privacy Lab program and it is functioning in the College of Computing and Informatics.
[2] Some of the projects currently underway in the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard School are related to re-identification, discrimination in online ads, privacy-enhanced linking, fingerprint capture, genomic privacy and complex-care patients.