FPF Unveils New Depository for Advanced Privacy-Protecting Solutions
Announcing the PETs Repository: A Centralized Hub for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) has launched a new webpage, the PETs Repository, designed to consolidate resources and developments around Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs). This initiative aims to facilitate a better understanding of PETs and increase the visibility of global initiatives in the field from governments and organizations to a broader audience.
Privacy-enhancing technologies are a group of techniques designed to enhance and preserve data privacy while maintaining its utility. The PETs Repository primarily focuses on consolidating developments and official resources reflecting the existing regulatory thinking and policymaking around these technologies.
The Repository is organized into three segments:
- Official Resources: This section provides links to official resources detailing use cases, applications, and results from testing environments such as sandboxes and other initiatives led by governments and organizations.
- Publications: Here, you will find relevant and contemporary publications from global organizations offering insights into PETs.
- Networks and Initiatives: This section highlights various networks and initiatives, including the Global PETs Network, an informal forum for international Data Protection Authorities and regulators, aimed at advancing PETs.
FPF has contributed to shaping policymaking around PETs through various initiatives. One such initiative is the Global PETs Network, which brings together experts to explore the potential of PETs in the context of AI and emerging technologies. The network aims to create a robust ecosystem where privacy-enhancing tools can be effectively integrated into data practices, ensuring privacy by design and compliance with evolving privacy regulations.
The Global PETs Network serves several purposes:
- Shape policy frameworks: By providing evidence-based recommendations and best practices to governments and regulatory bodies.
- Foster collaboration: Among academia, industry, civil society, and policymakers to address technical, ethical, and legal challenges related to PETs.
- Promote interoperability and standards: For PETs to ensure they can be widely and safely adopted.
- Raise awareness and capacity building: About the potential and limitations of PETs in protecting individuals' data privacy.
In July 2024, FPF launched the Research Coordination Network for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics, further demonstrating its commitment to promoting and enhancing understanding of PETs.
The PETs Repository is a valuable resource for those seeking information on the latest developments and official resources related to PETs. By consolidating resources from various sources, the Repository serves as a centralized, trusted, and up-to-date resource for individuals and organizations interested in PETs.
- Trust in the advanced understanding and visibility of global Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) initiatives can be enhanced through the PETs Repository, a centralized hub launched by the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF).
- The PETs Repository network aims to promote a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to exploring the potential of PETs in the era of AI and emerging technologies, such as the Global PETs Network.
- The Global PETs Network aspires to establish a robust framework for the effective integration of privacy-enhancing tools into data practices, ensuring compliance with evolving privacy policies and regulations.
- In addition to the Global PETs Network, the PETs Repository provides a forum for academia, industry, civil society, and policymakers to collectively address technical, ethical, and legal challenges related to PETs.
- As part of its ongoing commitment to PETs research, FPF introduced the Research Coordination Network for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics in July 2024.
- The PETs Repository, with its consolidation of resources from various sources, serves as a valuable, trustworthy, and up-to-date global network for individuals, organizations, and researchers interested in PETs, data-and-cloud-computing technology, and privacy policy.
