privacy and security

Time to take your data back with Tapmydata (Ep. 156)

In this episode I am with Gilbert Hill, head of strategy at https://tapmydata.com/
We speak about personal data, blockchain and the ability to control it and monetize with another simple yet effective app in the ecosystem.
 
 
References
https://tapmydata.com/
https://medium.com/@tholder/we-dont-want-your-data-pushing-boundaries-in-data-collection-and-end-to-end-encryption-for-apps-ebd1d5f79df5

You are the product [RB] (Ep. 147)

In this episode I am with George Hosu from Cerebralab
and we speak about how dangerous it is not to pay for the services you use, and as a consequence how dangerous it is letting an algorithm decide what you like or not.
 
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Links
https://cerebralab.com
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

What's up with WhatsApp? (Ep. 138)

Have you clicked the button? Accepted the new terms?
It's time we have a talk.

What is data ethics? (Ep. 133)

What is data ethics? In this episode I have an interesting chat with Denny Wong from FaqBot and Muna.
 
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References
Denny's Twitter profile
The data ethics awareness workshop for AI practitioners

What happens to data transfer after Schrems II? (Ep. 131)

In this episode Adam Leon Smith, CTO of DragonFly and expert in data regulations explains some of the consequences of Schrems II and data transfers from EU to US.
 
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Testing in machine learning: checking deeplearning models (Ep. 118)

In this episode I speak with Adam Leon Smith, CTO at DragonFly and expert in testing strategies for software and machine learning.We cover testing with deep learning (neuron coverage, threshold coverage, sign change coverage, layer coverage, etc.), combinatorial testing and their practical aspects.
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Why you care about homomorphic encryption (Ep. 116)

After deep learning, a new entry is about ready to go on stage. The usual journalists are warming up their keyboards for blogs, news feeds, tweets, in one word, hype.This time it's all about privacy and data confidentiality. The new words, homomorphic encryption.
 
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References
Towards a Homomorphic Machine Learning Big Data Pipeline for the Financial Services Sector
IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

Pandemics and the risks of collecting data (Ep. 103)

Codiv-19 is an emergency. True. Let's just not prepare for another emergency about privacy violation when this one is over.
 
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WARNING!! Neural networks can memorize secrets (ep. 100)

One of the best features of neural networks and machine learning models is to memorize patterns from training data and apply those to unseen observations. That's where the magic is. However, there are scenarios in which the same machine learning models learn patterns so well such that they can disclose some of the data they have been trained on. This phenomenon goes under the name of unintended memorization and it is extremely dangerous.
Think about a language generator that discloses the passwords, the credit card numbers and the social security numbers of the records it has been trained on. Or more generally, think about a synthetic data generator that can disclose the training data it is trying to protect. 
In this episode I explain why unintended memorization is a real problem in machine learning. Except for differentially private training there is no other way to mitigate such a problem in realistic conditions.At Pryml we are very aware of this. Which is why we have been developing a synthetic data generation technology that is not affected by such an issue.
 
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References
The Secret Sharer: Evaluating and Testing Unintended Memorization in Neural Networkshttps://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentation/carlini

Why sharing real data is dangerous (Ep. 97)

There are very good reasons why a financial institution should never share their data. Actually, they should never even move their data. Ever.In this episode I explain you why.