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Digital Public Infrastructure like DEPA for Training is designed to ensure critical issues like person’s (data principal’s) privacy is maintained if the data principal’s data is used as part of a data set, that is used to train an AI model which could be of large-scale benefit to society in areas like healthcare and finance. Training Data Providers (TDPs) are entities who collect aggregated large data sets. Think of TDPs as being banks, hospitals, insurance companies, and social media companies and so on.   A Training Data Consumer (TDC) is any organization that use these data sets to train models . A TDC could be a fintech or a healthtech that wishes to train models to detect fraud or a research lab that wishes to build an AI model to diagnose diseases. For this data sharing to happen, a relationship of trust must be built between TDCs and TDPs. This trust can be built through a digital contract. In DEPA for Training, for TDPs and TDCs to enter into any sort of collaboration and share data sets, the TDCs must first register their data sets with a service called the Contract Service. This is a service we expect to be set up by self-regulatory organizations (SROs) which might be sector specific. The contract will define data sets being shared, the terms of sharing the data sets, the frequency and duration of data sharing, and whether TDPs expect a payment, and security and privacy requirements.   The contract service is fully transparent so all contracts are recorded in a verifiable tamper proof ledger. -- The second building block of DEPA for Training is a Confidential Clean Room (CCR).   A Confidential Clean Room is a secure blackbox environment where data sets from multiple TDPs can be processed.   The AI model a TDC wishes to train can be trained in this CCR. In this framework, the TDPs never actually share their data sets directly with the TDCs. Only encrypted data sets are released to these Confidential Clean Rooms which are safe and secure environments. Most importantly TDCs never get access to the raw data and once the model has been trained, the clean room environment can be taken down.  -- The final building block of DEPA for Training is called Differential Privacy. If you train models on private data, there is a possibility that we can learn a lot about a certain set of individuals, just by looking at the data set.   To avoid this, and to ensure privacy is protected, DEPA for Training adopts Differential Privacy. Here, we can train models in a way that the receiver of the model cannot tell if any specific individual’s data was included in Training.   This ensures that the model can still learn broad patterns, like whether a specific group of people are more likely to suffer from a disease or not but the models cannot retain information that is too specific to individuals which could cause a privacy breach. https://lnkd.in/gWuK-xeu

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