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Ben Whitby's avatar

Helpful and accessible summary. Hopefully some of the business service integrators might pull on or support the PET ecosystem in some of their offerings eg healthcare administration. As yet the case for investment in PET seems only partially understood?

Alastair Thomson's avatar

Interesting and helpful. A couple of links to help us find out more would have been appreciated .

prof serious's avatar

Apologies, you are correct. I think the best starting point is the Royal Society reports https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/privacy-enhancing-technologies/ for the technical literature see the Proceedings of the PETs symposium https://petsymposium.org/popets/

Raj Rajarajan's avatar

Well said Anthony. PETs exist but the adoption is slow. User transparency is key in privacy technologies. This will be my keynote talk in Vietnam next week PETs as an enabler of data economy in the next generation decentralised internet.

Peter Grindrod's avatar

I have been following https://www.oblivious.com (venture funded) for a long time now. There is much interest in them but progress is partial.

prof serious's avatar

Some other interesting companies:

Roseman Labs https://rosemanlabs.com/en/

Duality Tech https://dualitytech.com/

Chris's avatar

Twenty years ago this could have enabled third party health service companies to do their market research without it also becoming a way of finding customers and annoyingly advertising to them.

It will be a threat to many such businesses, the smartest of which will offer to do it for their clients.

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prof serious's avatar

The opportunities in health data are very apparent. The barriers are principally organisational and governance rather than technical.

Natasha's avatar

Thank you for this summary and analysis of possibilities, incredibly helpful.