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Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Exploring new and developed cryptographic techniques that aid data privacy
While the term is not new to many working in the area of data privacy, there is still a great deal to learn around the transparency, accountability, and assurance that PETs offer.
PETs are based on cryptographic and statistical techniques, and while there is currently no universally accepted definition of which technologies and governance methods constitute a PET, the three main methods are data-shielding, data-altering, and computation-altering.
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SubscribeWhy are PETs important?
We are at a point in time when many factors - both technical and sociological - have aligned to create the conditions where personal data can be harnessed for unprecedented good, but also can do harm to individuals and groups. In short, there are opportunities to use personal data to help usher in developments in healthcare, education, civic governance, personalized digital experiences and other essential areas of life, but the technologies available to bad actors who would want to misuse personal data to manipulate or discriminate against others have also become more sophisticated.
At Meta, we are committed to ensuring that privacy protection is at the heart of everything we do, and in light of this, are investing heavily in understanding PETs and how best to implement them in a way which complements and improves our current privacy measures.
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There is a lot more work to do in this space. TTC Labs will be exploring Privacy Enhancing Technologies more in the future.
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