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Data protection in a borderless digital landscape

A group of the attendees from the PETs workshop

Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) have become an increasingly important policy priority for governments, multilateral organisations, and the data privacy expert community. PETs refer to a range of digital technologies and techniques that enable the collection, processing, analysis, and sharing of …

Guidance for Local Authorities on Data Analytics in Children’s Social Care 

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Children’s Social Care is one of the most important functions the government carries out. Children who need help and protection deserve high quality and effective support as soon as a need is identified.   Data analytics tools, software that enables categorisation …

How AI assurance can support trustworthy AI in recruitment

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Today, DSIT’s Responsible Technology Adoption Unit (RTA) is pleased to publish our guidance on Responsible AI in recruitment. This guidance aims to help organisations responsibly procure and deploy AI systems for use in recruitment processes. The guidance identifies key considerations …

Protecting Model Updates in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

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In our second post we described attacks on models and the concepts of input privacy and output privacy. ln our previous post, we described horizontal and vertical partitioning of data in privacy-preserving federated learning (PPFL) systems. In this post, we …

Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard: Getting ready for adoption at scale

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Today, the Responsible Tech Adoption Unit (RTA) in DSIT and the CDDO (Central Digital and Data Office) are launching updated products to better support public sector organisations in using the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS). This includes a new gov.uk …

Data Distribution in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

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This post is part of a series on privacy-preserving federated learning. The series is a collaboration between the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit (RTA) and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Learn more and read all the posts …

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning: Understanding the Costs and Benefits

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) could enable organisations to collaboratively use sensitive data in a privacy-preserving manner and, in doing so, create new opportunities to harness the power of data for research and development of trustworthy innovation. However, research DSIT commissioned …