Hi there,

What a month in the world of data privacy. By invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) sent a strong message to the U.S. public authorities, whose practices of personal data surveillance did not comply with Europe’s privacy protection principles. There will be no privilege on the issue of data protection and Europe does not intend to back down on its current level of protection. Multinational organizations are now bound to improve the privacy of cross-border data transfers if they wish to remain compliant with European data protection regulations. But not only multinationals.

The recent European Commission's GDPR review shows ambitions of complementing the legal framework by harmonizing national policies and reviewing current international data transfer mechanisms. This, plus all the national data protection laws being implemented, is a clear indication of the role that data privacy technologies will play in the years to come. And we are excited to be part of this change! To give you some ideas of what the privacy technologies could enable, we put together some content about current use-cases for synthetic data and more.

Happy reading!

The Statice team

Statice Stories

The successful story of insurance company La Mobilière

This is the type of success story that we love at Statice: Swiss insurance company La Mobilière validated the use of synthetic data to train machine learning models. We tell you why and how on the blog.
 

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What is privacy-preserving synthetic data?

It isn't always simple to understand what’s behind a technological concept. So we wrote this in-depth introduction to privacy-preserving synthetic data that sheds some light on its origin and benefits.

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10 use-cases for privacy-preserving synthetic data

If you are wondering “what exactly can I do with synthetic data?” Then, this presentation is for you. We listed 10 use-cases we came across within enterprises.

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On privacy matters

Differential privacy in the real world: practical evaluation, applications, and relaxations

The lead data scientist from the Urban Institute shared videos from this webinar with multiple speakers on the topic of Differential Privacy. Learn about the applications, methods, and challenges behind it.
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Privacy Shield revocation greatly complicates international data transfers

Earlier this month, judges at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidated the Privacy Shield that was until now the main way for transferring data from the EU to the US. CPO magazine published a good summary of the case.
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A survey of privacy attacks in machine learning

In this comprehensive paper, two researchers from the Czech Technical University in Prague present a taxonomy and a threat model to categorize privacy attacks against machine learning.
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GDPR review reveals EU's global data protection ambitions

What is coming next for the GDPR? Law firm Pinsent Masons shared a summary of the actions planned in response to the findings from the European Commission's GDPR review.
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The fundamentals of data anonymization and protection

On Datanami, you can read about some of the best practices for data anonymization and some of the most common methods.
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