Secure multiparty computation is critical to the next generation of privacy-enhancing technologies, the European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski said in a blog post. The technology has promise because it allows institutions to look at data and use it to train machine learning models while protecting individual data from unlawful access, making it especially useful in financial, health care and law enforcement work, Wiewiórowski said. The EDPS called for providing more legal clarity, ethical governance and a shared commitment to the technology in order to see it flourish.
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