There's a very interesting (and complex) US-UK challenge program to apply innovative privacy enhancing technologies either to reduce financial fraud or the improve predictions of individual risk during pandemics. One really interesting aspect of the program is the extensive use of synthetic data. The program has just announced its first awards. It's worth at least reading the short announcement from NSF summarizing the program and the awards at
Winners Announced in First Phase of U.S.-UK Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Prize Challenges | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
Today, the U.S. and UK governments have announced the winners of the first phase of the U.S.-UK privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) prize challenges. Innovators on both sides of the Atlantic are…
More information on the overall program here
https://petsprizechallenges.comDetails on the winning US teams can be found here
Meet the Winners of the U.S. PETs Prize Challenge: Phase 1 - DrivenData
Hear how these top teams applied novel privacy-enhancing technologies to the problems of financial crime and pandemic forecasting.
My thanks to the always-amazing Gary Price for noting this program.
Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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