Summary: The ICO is the UK’s privacy regulator. Their recent guidance goes far beyond clarifying requirements and actively recommends the adoption of advanced privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) when using, sharing, or collaborating on people’s personal information. Why? Because these technologies make working with sensitive data easy and more productive. Whether or not you’re under the…

The world of technology and regulation is fast-moving and ever-evolving. Multiple stakeholders impact specific regulations and how they are enforced, even within a single jurisdiction or industry. This leads to challenges we hear about repeatedly from the public and private sectors alike, largely falling into a few categories: For these reasons, Duality regularly engages with…

The ability to collaborate and share insights with anyone, anywhere, in any environment, and with any type of data – while satisfying compliance by default – is a force multiplier for any data strategy. In fact, acquiring the volume and variety of data to use in support of data-driven initiatives is one of the largest challenges facing data teams today, especially when developing and training ML and AI models. Such challenges are precisely what secure data collaboration solves.

In the first three parts of this series, we spotlighted massive spending in healthcare mergers and acquisitions and the goals therein, understood the players involved, and explored some of the key challenges. Mainly, how does one support greater use of data while simultaneously improving the protections of it? This is the part where objectives are…

How zero-access analytics improve ROI for common data initiatives and expand addressable markets by streamlining processes and eliminating regulatory roadblocks. You’ve heard about the need to get involved in business strategy discussions to help drive business value and growth. But how can you avoid stepping out of your lane or being told not to slow…

We left off having identified the spread of healthcare data across various types of healthcare organizations and teams, and ended with the question “why is collaboration so hard that companies will spend $150B+ in acquisitions to make it easier?” Spoiler, it all comes down to security and privacy. Despite all the waivers and HIPAA consent…

For years, there’s been talk about the need for more technical leadership positions, like the CIO and CISO, to become more in-tune and involved with the creation and enablement of business growth objectives rather than left to the end. But, that shift is easier said than done. To add to the complexity, it’s not just…

Full steam ahead. Complete mobilization. The power of people coming together to solve tough problems is described in many ways, but the results are always the same: solutions are found. Proof and point, the US Whitehouse recently included a specific focus on collaboration to solve problems, albeit in the context of security. 23andMe and Ancestry…

$150 Billion has been spent on Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) since 2015. This 150B spending spree isn’t only about big businesses getting bigger through vertical integration and customer acquisitions. If we look at the long-term visions of these organizations, we find a motivation that one might not necessarily expect: data collaboration. After all, we…